[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: Re: /etc/fstab obsolete?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 29.08.19 um 20:58 schrieb Dave Howorth:
>> We do this for safety reasons. Please declare all your mounts as
>> "nofail" and then systemd will boot up even without them being
>> around. But of course things will fall apart badly then as soon as a
>> device goes missing as all services will assume the file systems they
>> need are there but potentially are just reading or writing to the file
>> system undearneath.
> 
> There's an easy way around that. Change the permissions of the mount
> directory to be very restrictive, such that whatever normally writes in
> the mounted filesystem/directory can't. Then it's up to applications to
> deal with read or write failures appropriately.

i doubt that root owned prcoesses care about the permissions and the
immutable bit is not useable for most people besides that it can lead to
horrible errors

set it to /etc/inittab and the next systemd-update will fail on fedora
in a way that it's no longer in the rpmdatabase at all