On Wednesday 2020-09-30 08:19, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Are we still talking about completely removing /etc/fstab in favor of dynamically generated systemd mount points? How is that more attractive to newcomers than the old /etc/fstab?
Why would newcomers even care about such intricate system details?
The question is: what's so bad about having a simple format to configure and learn about? I.e. what are the actual benefits of going away?
Looking at, for example dev-hugepages.mount, there is one big [Unit] section whose fields have no equivalent in fstab. [Unit] Description=Huge Pages File System Documentation=https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt Documentation=https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems DefaultDependencies=no Before=sysinit.target ConditionPathExists=/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages ConditionCapability=CAP_SYS_ADMIN ConditionVirtualization=!private-users In the old fstab-sysvinit world, all these would have been bolt-on solutions elsewhere for which you had to individually go somewhere. Conditions would probably be evaluated somewhere in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs. As for manpages, the user has to look for himself. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org