[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#839071: Bug#839071: Patch for bug #839071

[Richard Laager]

On 09/29/2016 03:28 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Richard Laager]
>> The *writing* is hard-coded to /etc/mtab, but if it doesn't exist,
>> that's fine. ZFS just won't update /etc/mtab.
> 
> Right.  Perhaps better to use two defines, one MNTTAB_READ and one
> MNTTAB_WRITE to make this more clear, instead of introducing the
> /etc/mtab hardcoding?

Maybe. I had originally hoped to simply remove all the writing, but it
seems that some distros still need that. The current hope is to replace
the writing (and maybe reading) with libmount, but that's a bigger patch.

Strictly speaking, I'm not sure it was necessary in the final patch to
replace MNTTAB with hard-coded /etc/mtab, but I'd have to look at the
whole thing again to be sure.

-- 
Richard