On 2012-01-20 20:21, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> with /etc/mtab now being a symlink to /proc/mounts (which doesn't store
>> information about bind mounts), I believe we will have to disable this
>> check altogether.
> 
> Maybe we have to, but if that information is no longer readily available I
> would think this is an undesired behaviour. Where can one determine now if
> a mounted filesystem uses a bind mount?

>From what I checked, nowhere -- hence why I think we have to disable it;
it's unfixable.

This was also the reason why we switched grabbing the mount information
from the mount(8) to /etc/mtab in -117 (to close #578856); /etc/mtab was
the only place that stored this kind of information.

Regards,
Christian



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to