Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Richard Guenther wrote:
> 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 ...

Just try to _believe_ like Poettering that all this is good :)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs
"Why is this mount established via a systemd unit file, instead of an 
entry in /etc/fstab?"

cu,
Rudi
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