From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: fstab-sync creates a new file under /tmp. This causes at least two problems. One problem is that if /tmp and /etc are not on the same file system then the process of moving the temporary file to /etc has race conditions that could potentially leave a machine unbootable if a power failure occurs at the wrong time. Another problem is that in SE Linux a file created in /tmp gets the type tmp_t by default. If /etc/fstab gets this type then it can't be used by most programs (the system may fail to boot). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: boot machine Additional info: The solution is to use a temporary file name /etc/fstab.new or similar.
This have been addressed in bug #131187; the fix is in Rawhide (hal-0.2.97.cvs20040901-1). I have some concerns on how to properly update files atomically if relabeling is required; expressed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131187#c9. comments, suggestions are welcome. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131187 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.