[systemd-devel] [HEADSUP] fstab now parsed by generator in systemd git

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Wed May 23 04:43:47 PDT 2012


On Tue, 22.05.12 21:26, Bardur Arantsson (spam at scientician.net) wrote:

> 
> On 05/22/2012 08:03 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > just a quick heads-up. I just commited to git some work that rips out
> > the fstab parsing from PID 1 and places this in a generator instead. The
> > idea is that sooner or later we only parse native unit files from PID 1,
> > and everything else is transformed as needed with generators. This makes
> > the core a bit smaller and simplifies a lot of things.
> > 
> > This is quite a substantial change, and hence I am not sure I got it all
> > right. I am writing this mail for two reasons: to warn you that current
> > git might break your boot more likely then usually, and secondly: please
> > test this, especially if you have a more complex setup with nofail,
> > noauto and x-systemd.automount in the mix!
> > 
> 
> Speaking of which... does the code actually check for
> 
>    x-systemd.automount
> or x-systemd-automount

The former. The common prefix for all systemd mount option extensions is
"x-systemd."

Thanks for pointing this out.

Lennart

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