bug#19491: /etc/mtab give wrong entries for early-mounted items.

[Ludovic Courtès]

宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Notably, I have:
>   /dev/sda1 /root ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
>   none /root//dev devtmpfs rw 0 0
>
> Which should be:
>   /dev/sda1 / ...
>   none /dev ...
>
> Why not make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts?

This sounds appealing, but it seems that libmount in util-linux will
insist to update /etc/mtab.

Do you have evidence that it could cope with it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.