[systemd-devel] [PATCH] tmpfiles: move legacy flag-files handling to legacy.conf

[Reindl Harald]

Am 06.01.2013 00:25, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Sun, 06.01.13 00:17, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Am 06.01.2013 00:12, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
>>> +# /forcefsck, /fastboot and /forcequotecheck are deprecated in favor of the
>>> +# kernel command line options 'fsck.mode=force', 'fsck.mode=skip' and
>>> +# 'quotacheck.mode=force'
>>
>> oh yeah
>>
>> add a kernel-param is so much easier as "touch /forcefsck" before reboot
> 
> It's not about being easy. it's about making sense.

not really

> If you are suspicious that something's wrong with your file system so
> that you want to force a fsck the least you should do is write to it by
> creating a new file on it. That's easy to see, isn't it?

* who says that you always suspicious about the rootfs?
* the reboot itself is touching the FS too
* on remote-machines it often makes no difference write
  to boot-config or do "touch /forcefsck" and you can not
  add commandline params in anay envirnoment

> We support this flag file for compatility reasons. Not because it would
> make any sense, because it doesn't

it does, not in all cases, but it does

Lennart, i love the idea of systemd and since F15 there
are many things improved, but please get rid of the
attitude that you are the one and only who knows
how a unix-system has to work

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