issues with duplicate entries in /etc/mtab

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 14:06:53 +0100,
  Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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

I have a bug filed about this as well. I started from the warning message
about the link rather than df output.