[systemd-devel] [PATCH] fstab-generator: handle mount units with "x-rootfs.mount"

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> Am 23.03.2013 03:05, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
>> On Thu, 14.03.13 13:15, harald at redhat.com (harald at redhat.com) wrote:
>>
>>> From: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Mount units with "x-rootfs.mount" are now ordered before root-fs.target.
>>> As we sometimes construct /sysroot mounts in /etc/fstab in the initrd,
>>> we want these to be mounted before the root-fs.target is active.
>>
>> Hmm, I don't get this, what is this for? Where's the destinction to
>> "x-initrd.mount"? Why do we need both? Examples?
>>
>> Apparently a patch like this got merged, but it uses
>> "x-initrd-rootfs.mount" as identifier, is that the same thing? If so,
>> the thing really should be called "x-initrd.foobar", i.e. "x-initrd" is
>> supposed to be the 'namespace' the setting is in.
>>
>> Anyway, totally not grokking this, please enlighten me.
>>
>
> Sometimes we need to create an /etc/fstab entry for /sysroot in the initramfs
> manually. So, we could either hardcode "/sysroot" to result in dependencies to
> SPECIAL_ROOT_FS_TARGET, or mark it with "x-initrd-rootfs.mount".

What Lennart meant was: all the initrd things should stick to one and
the same prefix x-initrd.* and not invent new top-level prefixes with
x-initrd-*.

This can only be one entry ever, and it will always be /sysroot,
right? This flexibility is probably not needed then and we can
hardcode /sysroot?

Kay