CC'ing Roger. On Saturday 30 May 2009 21:49:16 Dmitry Maksyoma wrote: > > Just to let you know: when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, loop > devices > aren't freed by umount and the system may run out of loop devices (which makes > things worse than they were with old-style mtab). Apparently, it's not a bug, > as > it's documented in mount(8): > > If you are not so unwise as to make /etc/mtab a symbolic link to /proc/mounts > then any loop device allocated by mount will be freed by umount. You can > also free a loop device by hand, using `losetup -d', see losetup(8). >
Thanks for pointing it out Dmitry. Symlinking of mtab to /proc/mounts also seems to change/stop the user= mount option from working properly. Do the benefits of symlinking mtab -> mounts outweigh possible regressions related to loop device mounting or user= mount option? Thanks, Kel.
