Description of Problem:

When mounting a filesystem from a remote node via NFS, mount corrupts
/etc/mtab by prepending the current working directory (from which the mount
command was run). This corrupt entry is then reported by df and mount when
displaying information on the mounted filesystem. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mount: mount-2.11e

How Reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
[root@newt /root]# mount -r decatl:/usr/dec /mnt 
[root@newt /root]# df 
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              8325288   1349872   6552508  18% /
/dev/sda1               101093      6875     88997   8% /boot
/root/decatl:/usr/dec  4000000   2610040   1389960  66% /mnt

Notice the leading "/root/".

The corruption is in /etc/mtab, which shows the following entry for decatl:
/root/decatl:/usr/dec /mnt nfs ro,addr=16.113.7.95 0 0

/proc/mounts is fine, showing the following:

decatl:/usr/dec /mnt nfs
ro,v3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,udp,lock,addr=decatcl 0

/etc/mtab should have:

decatl:/usr/dec /mnt nfs rw,addr=16.113.7.95 0 0

This is fixed in util-linux 2.11f-9 (current rawhide for alpha), mount
version 2.11g. Perhaps this RPM should be pushed as errata for alpha?

Workaround fix: Use util-linux 2.11f-9 from rawhide.

Note: This bug was sent through Compaq Support instead of being filed
directly, and was filed by Red Hat Support. Compaq would like to see this
pushed as an official errata.