Bug 244637 - mount(/etc/mtab) lies
Summary: mount(/etc/mtab) lies
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 4.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
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Reported: 2007-06-18 09:41 UTC by Rafal Wijata
Modified: 2007-11-17 01:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-06-25 14:53:04 UTC
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Description Rafal Wijata 2007-06-18 09:41:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
If filesystem gets remounted R/O by the kernel itself mount shows it's R/W.
/proc/mounts shows it correctly R/O.

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2007-06-25 14:53:04 UTC 
/etc/mtab shows how the filesystem was mounted using mount(8).  There's not much
we can do about the kernel re-mounting read-only.
Comment 2 Rafal Wijata 2007-07-02 07:40:03 UTC 
I guess mount should not use /etc/mtab but /proc/mounts
Isn't that *BSD going this way?
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