Re: [PATCH] Minor sys_umount fix (changes semantics slightly)

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:30:51 -0700

Guest section writes:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 05:41:03PM +0000, Malcolm Beattie wrote:
>
> > > > Here's a one-letter patch for 2.3.x to sys_umount to allow it to
> > > > unmount filesystems whose root inode is a symlink.
>
> Yes, so again. Everyone agrees, I think, that mount should follow
> symlinks. Moreover, one expects a certain parallelism between the
> behaviour of mount and umount. So umount should follow symlinks
> until it comes to the mount point. Your problem is that the mount
> point used to be an ordinary directory but now is overmounted by
> a filesystem that has a symlink at the root.

I really would like to see mount(8) *not* follow symlinks. If I have
/dev/sda2 -> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2

then the current behaviour yields a huge <df> output. If I mount
/dev/sda2, then that's what I want to see in my <df> output.

Regards,

Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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