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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> > None, as /lib/init/rw will not be an "optional" thing.
> 
> Initial testing show that this do not work.  If /etc/mtab is a
> symlink, mount refuses to update it.  If it is a bind mount, mount is
> unable to create /etc/mtab~ and refuses to update it.  I tried to bind
> mount /etc/mtab~ and /etc/mtab.tmp too, but without much success.  I
> am starting to suspect that storing mtab in /lib/init/rw/ is not going
> to work without patching mount.

Time to patch mount, then.

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