Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:

> Le mardi 27 mars 2012 à 19:16 +0200, Matthias G. Eckermann a écrit :
> > On 2012-03-27 T 18:46 +0200 Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > Le mardi 27 mars 2012 à 12:35 -0400, Robert Schweikert a écrit:
> > > > We probably have to consider any potential ill side effects
> > > > for users that have /tmp already setup as a tmpfs mount.
> > >
> > > This will need to be tested but I think systemd will just
> > > "override" the default from /etc/fstab in that case (but I'm
> > > not 100% sure)
> >
> > That would be rather inconvenient: think about people who might
> > have special mount options to /tmp on tmpfs, such as size, ...
>
> I've done some tests about this particular changes (forward porting the
> patch to see its effects) :
> * systemd ships its own tmp.mount file which is overriding any
> information which might be relevant in /etc/fstab regarding /tmp
> * however, this file is overridable in /etc/systemd/system (as it was
> explained in the url I gave regarding this feature on Fedora) :
>  - if we want to disable mounting /tmp as tmpfs, ln
> -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount will be enough (the defaults
> won't be applied)
>  - if other settings are needed than the one
> from /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount, adding options
> in /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount will work (and even something like
> mounting /tmp to a separate partition)
>  - a radical solution could also be to remove file
> in /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount and symlink
> in /lib/systemd/system/local-fs.target/tmp.mount to make sure systemd
> doesn't take care of /tmp.

This ignorance of systemd of standard configuration files gets annoying 
...

Richard.

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