[systemd-devel] Hotplug auto mounting and masked mount units

[Phillip Susi]

Someone in #debian mentioned to me that they were getting some odd
errors in their logs when running gparted.  It seems that several years
ago there was someone with a problem caused by systemd auto mounting
filesystems in response to udev events triggered by gparted, and so as a
workaround, gparted masks all mount units.  Curtis Gedeck and I can't
seem to figure out now, why this was needed because we can't seen to get
systemd to automatically mount a filesystem just because it's device is
hot plugged.  Are there any circumstances under which systemd will mount
a filesystem when it's device is hotplugged?

Also I'm pretty sure this part is a bug in systemd: any service that
depends on -.mount ( so most of them ) it will refuse to start while
-.mount is masked.  It shouldn't matter that it's masked if it is
already mounted should it?  Only if it isn't mounted, then it can't be
mounted to satisfy the dependency.