[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#656151: initscripts: /etc/mtab symlink to /proc/mounts impairs mount.nilfs2 [nilfs-tools]

[Roger Leigh]

reassign 656151 nilfs-tools
severity 656151 important
thanks

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:20:19PM +0100, mtths at nurfuerspam.de wrote:
> since mount.nilfs2 wants to write to /etc/mtab, a symlink to /proc/mounts
> prevents it and results in not starting nilfs_cleanerd (the garbage
> collector), so that the filesystem unnecessarily will run out of space.

Writing to /etc/mtab is no longer allowed.  This means that
nilfs-tools mount.nilfs2 needs updating to use libmount, like all
of the other mount helpers have already done.  This is not a bug in
initscripts, hence I'm reassigning to nilfs-tools.  If this causes
dataloss, please upgrade the severity to "serious".  If this bug has
not been reported to the nilfs-tools upstream, it should also be done.


Regards,
Roger

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