[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 207

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 18.09.13 00:13, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at inai.de) wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tuesday 2013-09-17 21:03, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Fri, 13.09.13 15:15, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> >> 
> >> 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 13/09/13 03:16 did gyre and gimble:
> >> >         * The option "discard" (as known from Debian) is now
> >> >           synonymous to "allow-discards" in /etc/crypttab. In fact,
> >> >           the latter is preferred now (since it is easier to remember
> >> >           and type).
> >> 
> >> I think you mean the "*former* is preferred now"? (I cannot see how
> >> "allow-discards" is easier to type than "discard" ;)
> >
> >I clarified this in the NEWS file now. Of course "discard" is the 
> >preferred name as you guessed.
> 
> Humm. That's unfortunate (in a way) that discards is the same
> allow-discards.
> 
> In pam_mount where discard too had been feature-requested (and then
> implemented according to the way it sounds): "allow-discards"
> _allows_ discarding, but only "discard" would make it such that
> the filesystem issues discards to the block layer, leaving the
> former case for manual discards.

Hmm, and what the is the underlying between the two in pam_mount? I
mean, what does it translate to in mount options?

Lennart

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