Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:58:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:58:08 -0500 Received: from dsl-212-144-205-077.arcor-ip.net ([212.144.205.77]:20359 "EHLO server1.intern.kubla.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 01:58:04 -0500 From: Dominik Kubla To: Kasper Dupont , Miles Bader Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:08:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: DervishD , Linux-kernel References: <20030219112111.GD130@DervishD> <3E5DB2CA.32539D41@daimi.au.dk> In-Reply-To: <3E5DB2CA.32539D41@daimi.au.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302270808.21035.dominik@kubla.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 37 On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:40, Kasper Dupont wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: > > Kasper Dupont writes: > > > My suggestion would be to change it from /etc/mtab to /mtab.d/mtab. > > > > Please, no. don't pollute the root (_especially_ with little one-use > > directories like that). > > Unfortunately it is the best solution I can come up with. > > > /var is clearly the right place for this; > > Is it? I would recommend to replace /etc/mtab with a pseudo-FS like Sun did for /etc/mnttab: # uname -rs SunOS 5.8 # mount -p ... mnttab - /etc/mnttab mntfs - no dev=39c0000 ... Regards, Dominik -- "What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." (V.K. von Plehve, Russian Minister of Interior on the eve of the Russo-Japanese war.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/