[systemd-devel] systemd.mount creating mount resource (What) for bind mounts

[Lennart Poettering]

On Di, 07.01.20 14:50, Anoop Karollil (anoop.karollil at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I see that a mount unit with `Options=bind` set creates the resource
> to be mounted, specified by `What`, in addition to the mount point,
> specified by `Where`, when they don't exist.
>
> Manual page at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.mount.html
> mentions that the mount point will be created if it doesn't exist for
> `Where`. But doesn't mention that this applies to `What` too in the
> case of bind mounts. I think this is the change that added this
> behaviour: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/2b583ce6576d4a074ce6f1570b3e60b65c64ae7d#diff-df9fd757e73e7f659350e8a76994d42f.
> I found it a little surprising, especially since the behaviour is
> described for `Where` but not for `What`. So maybe its good to mention
> that in the systemd.mount man page under `What`?

I prepped this now in response:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/14553

PTAL!

Thanks for the pointer,

Lennart

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