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Obtaining information about mounted file system states

For accurate information about the state of mounted file systems on Linux, refer to the contents of /proc/mounts. The mount command may or may not reference this source of information depending on whether the regular file /etc/mtab has been replaced with a symbolic link to /proc/mounts. This change is made at the discretion of the system administrator and the benefits are discussed in the mount online manual page.

A benefit of using /proc/mounts is that changes to SFCFS mount options are accurately displayed for all nodes.