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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 23.05.12 12:10, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (barbieri at profusion.mobi) wrote:

> >> One suggestion at IRC was to just keep systemd mount units. But if we
> >> should go this route, then we should call to deprecate /etc/fstab.
> >> Last time we discussed about it, people said it was not going to
> >> happen since some tools were parsing and relying on it. Whats is the
> >> way to go?
> >
> > We don't really deprecate it. But if people want to they don't have to
> > use it now, and can do this easily by dropping the file and removing the
> > generator.
> >
> > You know, fewer PIDs are definitely a good thing, but for some things
> > doing them out-of-process is actually a good thing. Unix knows processes
> > and process isolation for a reason.
> 
> In this case I'm still more for having the fstab parser bultin,
> however I understand your point.
> 
> In my usage I'll just drop fstab and see what happens. For sure simple
> "mount /mountpoint" will not work anymore, then I wonder if there is
> any plan to provide systemd-mount to be linked as /bin/mount in order
> to get the mount description (device, point, options) from systemd
> mount units instead of fstab.

We have that already. It has a slightly different syntax though:

systemctl start mountpoint.mount

Lennart

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