Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754763AbYFDFpb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:45:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751129AbYFDFpV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:45:21 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:59914 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751164AbYFDFpU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:45:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Ta3GnHOYH7pctw0nKkCbK6AG87ZJxcLD7S+ozLq3Ikdf 1212558318 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4 From: Ian Kent To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, jmoyer@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jesper@krogh.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20080603105258.GV28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1212499623.3025.46.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1212509263.3025.66.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1212513189.3025.101.camel@raven.themaw.net> <20080603173029.GD28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080603191859.GG28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080603230026.GH28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1212547323.3146.45.camel@raven.themaw.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:41:57 +0800 Message-Id: <1212558119.3146.46.camel@raven.themaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-4.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:34 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Perhaps, if we didn't use /etc/mtab anywhere. > > It would make a difference if we could "mount" /proc/mounts onto a file > > such as /etc/mtab and everyone always did that. > > That's actually remarkably close to being possible. Loopback mounts > have already been fixed not to rely on /etc/mtab. The only major > piece missing is "user" mounts, and there's already a patchset for > that waiting for review by the VFS maintainers. After that, it's just > a "simple" issue of fixing up all the userspace pieces. Could be > finished in the next decade, possibly ;) ;) -- 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/