[fuse-devel] /bin/mount: invalid option -i (was: Re: fuse-2.7.0 and busybox mount)

[Szabolcs S. <sz...@nt...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > My /etc/mtab was a symlink to /proc/mounts.
> > I tried to mount also other FUSE filesystems, not only NTFS-3G.
> > 
> > Strace shows that mount() function is called, but then /bin/mount is 
> > executed again for some strange reason, with the -i option, which is 
> > unsupported by busybox.
> 
> Yeah, the reason is that in fuse-2.7 fusermount no longer tries to
> modify /etc/mtab, but calls "/bin/mount -i -f ...."  to do that.
> 
> But all this is unnecessary if /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts.
> So fuse could detect this and not call /bin/mount in that case.  I'll
> fix this up in the next minor release.

What's the status of this problem? People are keep reporting mount fails 
with busybox and klibc because of the -i mount option.

Thanks,
	    Szaka