issues with duplicate entries in /etc/mtab

[Michal Schmidt]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:59:25 +0100 Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> As you can see with a current rawhide install you might end up with
> filesystems that have multible entries in mtab:
> http://fpaste.org/Z7Ne/
> 
> df also outputs the filesystems redundantly.
> 
> If the system is to be changed and mtab is going to be removed all the
> tools writing to and reading from it have to be looked at as well i
> guess.
> I am not sure if the right people are already aware of the issue.

Lennart wants mtab to be a symlink to /proc/mounts:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655571

Michal