On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:39:28PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> reassign 656151 nilfs-tools
> severity 656151 important
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:20:19PM +0100, mt...@nurfuerspam.de wrote:
> > since mount.nilfs2 wants to write to /etc/mtab, a symlink to /proc/mounts
> > prevents it and results in not starting nilfs_cleanerd (the garbage
> > collector), so that the filesystem unnecessarily will run out of space.
> 
> Writing to /etc/mtab is no longer allowed.  This means that
> nilfs-tools mount.nilfs2 needs updating to use libmount, like all
> of the other mount helpers have already done.  This is not a bug in
> initscripts, hence I'm reassigning to nilfs-tools.  If this causes
> dataloss, please upgrade the severity to "serious".  If this bug has
> not been reported to the nilfs-tools upstream, it should also be done.

Looks like upstream already supports libmount; likely this just needs
libmount-dev adding to the Build-Depends and configuring with
--enable-libmount.


Regards,
Roger

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