> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> > I tried making that symlink soon after I first heard about it, and had
> > so many problems that I promptly removed it and went back to a static
> > /etc/mtab instead.
>
> making symbolic link /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts stops people from
> triggering a bug in mounting loopback device (i.e. from supplying -o loop
> option to mount instead of doing it properly, i.e. use losetup(8)
> command). If there are other problems than this, I will switch to static
> /etc/mtab. (I assume one also made a symlink /dev/root -> /dev/sdXY)
>
What bug is this? I have been mounting ISO images loopback with -oloop and
exporting them with Samba for over a year and have seen no problems.
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