F15: ugly behavior of "df"

[Pádraig Brady]

On 23/06/11 16:21, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 23/06/11 15:53, Karel Zak wrote:
>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709351
>>
>> The tools (not only df(1)) have to be fixed to de-duplicate the list
>> of fileststems. It's standard behavior that the same filesystem could
>> be mounted on more places. 
>>
>> The 'bind' flag is another way how to achieve that the filesystem is
>> mounted on another place. Nothing other.
>>
>>    # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/A
>>    # mount --bind /mnt/A /mnt/B
>>
>> is the same thing as:
>>
>>    # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/A
>>    # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/B 
>>
>> there is nothing like 'bind' state of the filesystem. The 'bind' info in
>> mtab was always broken by design.
>>
>> http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2011/04/bind-mounts-mtab-and-read-only.html
> 
> Thanks for that info.
> 
> I did a find_bind_mount() function as part of:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=ddf6fb86

That's no longer valid.
Looks like I'll need to separately parse /proc/self/mountinfo
if we need that functionality :(
I'm sure there was a very good reason for changing that?

> I also adjusted df to handle bind mounts better with:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=0380e4c9
> I'll have to revisit these to see if they're still valid.

That one seems less necessary now.

> I'll have a look at fixing up df (I guess I'll reverse the mount list
> and have some internal hash to detect dupes?).

I had a 5 min look and I don't think it will be this easy.

> I need to see why F15 has started doing this too.
> For example on my system there are 2 _identical_ entries
> for /home in /proc/mounts.

I've not got sandbox installed BTW.
Still need to look at this.

cheers,
Pádraig.