Re: [PATCH 3/3] autofs - fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored

From: Mike Marion
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 11:02:00 EST


On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:36:49AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> And with the move of userspace to use /proc based mount tables (one
> example being the symlink of /etc/mtab into /proc) even modest sized
> direct mount maps will be a problem with every entry getting mounted.
>
> Systems will cope with this fine but larger systems not so much.

Yes.. we've run into some big issues due to the change of /etc/mtab from
a file to a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. Most have been worked around
thus far (mostly due to Suse coming up with patches) but still have a
few annoying ones.

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Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Sr. Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com