[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Drop the mtab magic and just symlink or bindmount /etc/mtab to /lib/init/rw/mtab ?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> At the moment, the boot system contain much code to work around the
> fact that mtab isn't writable when file systems are mounted early in
> the boot.  I just changed mountkernfs.sh to mount /lib/init/rw/ as the
> first thing.  With this in place, it should be safe to let /etc/mtab
> be a symlink to for example /lib/init/rw/mtab, and use mount normally
> instead of with the -n option.  Any objections to doing this?

None, as /lib/init/rw will not be an "optional" thing.

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