Re: OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e

[Helge Hafting]

DervishD wrote:

>    Hi Olaf :)
>
> * Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> dixit:
>  
>
> > > then /etc/mtab can die. Comments? Better solutions?
> > >      
> > Andries, /etc/mtab is obsolete since the day when /proc/self/mounts was
> > introduced. So, kill it today from your mount binary! TODAY. ...
> >    
>
>    Bad idea... ;))) I upgraded my 'mount' yesterday. I was using a
> mount from Debian, from 1998 more or less, that worked flawlessly
> except for the '--bind' feature and things like those. I used
> /etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts, and all worked OK except for
> the double root entry and the need to manually call losetup to delete
> unused /dev/loop entries.
>
>    But after the upgrade I no longer could umount a filesystem that
> I mounted as 'user', because the device is a symlink and the 'user'
> option is not stored in /proc/mounts. So my problems were:
>  
Using a mtab that is a link to /proc/mounts fails with quota too.
Quta tools read /etc/mtab looking for "usrquota" and or "grpquota"
mount options.  These appear in a normal /etc/mtab but not in /proc/mounts,

so the tools gets the mistaken impression that no fs actually use quotas.

Helge Hafting
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