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| author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2017-11-14 14:11:57 -0600 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2017-11-14 15:41:03 -0600 |
| commit | 318e87348168e37d78f433d3ff06288ad8ccf15c (patch) | |
| tree | 5d9ae4c8ff5a47d672370f14e0f65dc72c918da2 /conf.d/mtab | |
| parent | 0d15898f58cc254d79777c791d4798a9b2542cf2 (diff) | |
strongly encourage Linux users to not make /etc/mtab a flat file
The OpenRC team does not currently know of any modern linux tools that
require /etc/mtab to be a flat file, so this puts users on notice that
the mtab service will be removed in the future.
Diffstat (limited to 'conf.d/mtab')
| -rw-r--r-- | conf.d/mtab | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/conf.d/mtab b/conf.d/mtab index 9e16d9b3..f58fad6c 100644 --- a/conf.d/mtab +++ b/conf.d/mtab @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ +# As far as we are aware, there are no modern linux tools or use cases +# which require /etc/mtab to be a separate file from /proc/self/mounts, +# so this setting should be commented out. +# If it is set to yes, please comment it out and run this command: +# # rc-service mtab restart +# In the future, the mtab service will be removed since we are not aware +# of any need to manipulate /etc/mtab as a separate file from +# /proc/self/mounts. +# If you have a technical reason we should keep this support, please +# open an issue at https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues and let us +# know about your situation. # This setting controls whether /etc/mtab is a file or symbolic link. -# Most of the time, you shouldn't touch this. However, if the default -# breaks your system in some way, please see the NEWS.md file that comes -# with OpenRC for the actions to take. # mtab_is_file=no |