On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:25:38PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I think it's very reasonable to want to edit /etc/fstab to change
the
default mount options of these filesystems. Suppose that /dev/shm
defaults to allowing suid and exec. At some point in the future a
security problem is found which can be worked around by temporarily
setting nosuid on /dev/shm (while the real issue is fixed). An
administrator can't do that without recompiling systemd.
I'm not sure there's a win in having systemd do magic rather than just using
fstab -- reminds me of IRIX and its auto-mounting of some but not all swap
partitions. (Yay newbie admin confusion!)
But if there's a good technical reason, it still seems reasonable to let
/etc/fstab override the defaults.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences