#356 NORM BTest-1: Problems with /etc/mtab

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#356: Problems with /etc/mtab
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  Reporter:  dwmw2   |       Owner:  blizzard                         
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened                         
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  BTest-1                          
 Component:  distro  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                                   
  Verified:  1       |  
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Changes (by wmb at firmworks.com):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * version:  => Development build as of this date
  * resolution:  fixed =>

Comment:

 This one seems to have come back, if it ever was truly fixed.  /etc/mtab
 is on mtd0 in at least builds 406.14 and 540.  I just analyzed a NAND
 FLASH dump from a recently-installed, then lightly-used system.  Of the
 approximately 500 new NAND FLASH dirents, nearly half were mtab rewrites.
 This is especially ugly because each mtab update appears to generate a
 couple of backup names, each of which creates a new JFFS2 dirent node.

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