[systemd-devel] [PATCH] fstab-generator: Support root on tmpfs

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 01:45:06PM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2015-03-23 13:39 GMT+03:00 Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Vasiliy,
> >
> > from what I read lowerdir, upperdir and workdir need to be
> > directories, not devices. So how can you mount those three directories
> > before setting up an overlayfs using them?
> >
> > That should be possible with a couple of units injected into the
> > initrd, but to me this seems more than what the fstab-generator can
> > support at this time.
> 
> 
> Only lowerdir need to be device, all other dirs can be tmpfs dirs.
OK, I guess that this is good enough.

So we should have something like fstype_is_deviceless (fstype_has_no_device?)
like fstype_is_network().

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