Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4

[Ian Kent]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:34 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Perhaps, if we didn't use /etc/mtab anywhere.
> > It would make a difference if we could "mount" /proc/mounts onto a file
> > such as /etc/mtab and everyone always did that.
> 
> That's actually remarkably close to being possible.  Loopback mounts
> have already been fixed not to rely on /etc/mtab.  The only major
> piece missing is "user" mounts, and there's already a patchset for
> that waiting for review by the VFS maintainers.  After that, it's just
> a "simple" issue of fixing up all the userspace pieces.  Could be
> finished in the next decade, possibly ;)

;)


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