[systemd-devel] [PATCH] fstab-generator: add x-systemd.{after, requires-mounts-for}=

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 13 May 2015 at 13:33, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 12.05.15 19:29, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> All examples can be configured using drop-ins. Do we really need yet
>> another syntax now?
>
> Well, even though units are all-powerful, I still believe that fstab
> is probably where most people will configure their stuff, simply
> because it's so much simpler to use.
>

... and the only place where you can define different mount options
and expect them to take effect. This is because remount-fs only
remounts things defined in fstab, and doesn't remount things that are
defined via .mount units.

> Now, of course, we shouldn't try to reimplement all possible settings
> that .mount unit files provide as fstab options. But the most obvious
> ones probably *do* make sense to add, and x-systemd.requires= is
> probably one of them. It's not only useful for stuff like overlayfs,
> but also pretty essential for things like ext3, ext4, xfs which
> support external journal logging devices, for which the mounts need to
> express dependencies:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164334
>
> Lennart
>
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