[systemd-devel] [PATCH ] Adding /etc/fstab.d/*.fstab support

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 20.01.12 23:14, Masatake YAMATO (yamato at redhat.com) wrote:

> > If we go for advanced storage handling, we might need to invent
> > something that can carry real metadata and assembly instructions, and
> > this might need to live in their own files, sure. But that's a
> > different issue, and would all be fine. But please leave fstab alone,
> > we don't want to deal with changing that.
> > 
> > Kay
> 
> Thank you for explanation.
> 
> systemd.mount(5) says:
> 
>     FSTAB
> 	   Mount units may either be configured via unit files, or via
> 	   /etc/fstab (see fstab(5) for details).
> 
> systemd, which handles unit files for mount, already breaks the expectation of the 
> random tools, doesn't it? The random tools don't know the unit files. 

Which is why we don't really recommend anybody to use .mount unit files
unless they really have to. That said, note that .mount unit files
actually bring real benefit over fstab in some cases (i.e. since they
allow you to control in very much detail the dependencies of the
mount). But since those advantages are minimal (i.e. the automatic
dependency logic should be good enough for most cases), we encourage
everybody to just stay compatible and continue to use fstab.

Extending fstab to fstab.d is neither compatible, nor does it bring any
bigger advantages, and hence it's a bit pointless, don't you think?

Or to turn this around: if you introduce an incompatible new interface,
then that's OK, but then you have to offer some really really convincing
new features to buy yourself a way out.

Lennart

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