[systemd-devel] consider renaming "-.slice"

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jan 16 02:39:09 PST 2014


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:27:42AM +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Oh, I confused that with the old /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf
> file, which was renamed.
> 
> Kay, I only meant to special case the "/", e.g. let
> home-kay-data.mount be it like it is, but rename "-" to "root", so
> that it is "root.mount" and "root.slice".

This would still break applications like libvirt which expect the
current naming conventions. These naming conventions must be
considered to be part of the stable API for apps and so cannot
be changed once included in an official release.


Daniel
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