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On 8/23/10 9:27 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 23.08.10 10:52, Garrett Holmstrom (gholms(a)fedoraproject.org)
wrote:
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> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> So, to turn this around. Do you think this behaviour is problematic? Can
>> you make a good case for dropping this automatism? If so I'd be willing
>> to do so.
>
> That behavior might be fine, but don't add filesystems marked "noauto"
> to the list of filesystems to be mounted automatically when reading fstab.
>
> Here are my use cases and other rationale. I'm sure other people have more:
>
> * fstab(5) documents the "noauto" option
Well, what it says is that noauto results in "the -a option will not
cause the filesystem to be mounted". And that's still the case. We
execute either the real "mount -a" (or actually something equivalent) at
bootup, and that by itself won't cause the fs to be mounted still.
> * I manually mount network shares that aren't always available with the
> "noauto" and "user" options
That's not the issue here. systemd will never mount non-device mount points
automatically, unless listed as "auto".
> * Removable media that appear in fstab are usually marked noauto
And?
> * /boot doesn't always need to be mounted on every distro
And?
> * I mount large filesystems after the boot process finishes so fscking
> doesn't pause booting at $dayjob
And?
And how does a system admin/user get the old functionality back, where
there was a line in /etc/fstab that made it easy to mount certain things
manually when it was convenient and/or safe for the user to do so?
I think adding more flexibility is interesting, but not at the cost of
changing (rather drastically) the semantics of an established option.
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