On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:10:29 -0500, David Zeuthen <david(a)fubar.dk> wrote:
Sure, there will be proponents of ditching fstab-sync, people
will scream "oh, so how do you expect I mount by cdrom from the
command line, gimme back my /etc/fstab line for /dev/cdrom",
but personally, I think the trade off of improved desktop UI
versus command line users is worth that. Command line users
probably know how to an entry themselves, otherwise they
wouldn't be using the command line in the first place :-)
I personally like the idea of removing the dynamically controlled
mountpoint from /etc/fstab completely. autofs controlled mountpoints
already don't use fstab so its not like moving hal facilitated mounts
out of fstab sets a new precedent. If the non-fstab future can be
encoded into desktop ui.. im sure it can be encoded into some sort of
cli tool for cli usage to interact with hal in a similar way.
-jef