[systemd-devel] Inconsistencies in the systemd.mount documentation

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Wed Sep 11 11:29:28 PDT 2013


On Wed, 11.09.13 20:04, Thomas Bächler (thomas at archlinux.org) wrote:

> Am 11.09.2013 17:08, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> > Using FsckPassNo= as a way to add that dep sucks really, because the
> > ordering it does is stupid and fsck can do the ordering internally
> > anyway these days...
> 
> So, shouldn't systemd-fstab-generator omit that entirely, too? Instead,
> every mount with pass!=0 should get the correct fsck dependency.

Well, in classic fstab passno=0 means no fsck, passno!=0 means fsck. On
top of that the value of passno can be used to order things. We
honour those rules when we convert from fstab, and for that use
FsckPassNo=. That's why it is compat only... 

Lennart

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