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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 06.01.13 00:59, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> jesus christ, i have disabled on any server fsck after x days
> or x boots because this will hit you always at the wrong moment
> after a routine kernel update

Fedora disables that anyway. Only Debian retains this automatic fsck at boot.

> i decide in my job as admin if the time is right for a fs-check i
> decide this regulary with "touch /forcefsck; systemctl reboot" i do
> not like to connect to the vCenter server, hold on the boot in GRUB
> and add a param becaue it wastes time with no benefit in such cases
> 
> so what is difficult to understand that it makes not sense to declare
> ANYTHING of the pre-systemd area as "deperecated" nor that you do not
> a favour for sysadmins to act this way

Tom's patch doesn't remove this feature, it just moves this to another
file, which is for all the stuff we find suspicious and don't think
should be used by legacy-free systems. Fedora and the other big distros
are unlikely to go "legacy-free", hence nobody's taking anything away
from you.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.