[systemd-devel] systemd-fstab-generator and multiple mounts to same mount point

[John Lane]

On 02/01/13 14:25, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:44:10PM +0000, John Lane wrote:
>> On 02/01/13 12:15, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>> В Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:01:41 +0000
>>> John Lane <systemd at jelmail.com> пишет:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a configuration where a filesystem is mounted on /images.
>>>>
>>>> Then a subdirectory of that filesystem, say /images/1, is bind mounted
>>>> on top as /images.
>> I think the problem is how systemd names the generated mount units.
>> If there is a clash, could it not
>> use a modified name for the unit (e.g if
>> /run/systemd/generator/images.mount exists it would create
>> /run/systemd/generator/images-1.mount or something like that) ?
> Hi,
>
> it's on the TODO list ("* properly handle .mount unit state tracking
> when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact
> same mount point.") Patches welcome :)
>
> Zbyszek
>
Good to know, thanks. I'll take a look and see if I'll provide a patch 
if I can.
But I have never looked inside systemd so I may need some pointers to 
find my way around it.

@tom: good point about not including a "-" in any variant filename.