Am 30.09.20 um 00:13 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Tuesday 2020-09-29 22:06, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
Or in other words: the old UNIX admins will go away, that's unavoidable, and cannot be stopped, independent of what we are doing. We need to make sure that enough new people are coming. And we need changes which attract them. [...]
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? For them, the default install should reasonably work.
And if and when they do want to explore the system guts, one simply has to learn the mechanism(s) of the particular system, whatever the system may be. Especially those people that lament all the time about how the Unix ways are seemingly getting lost in contemporary Linux should know better that there were—and are—Unixes that have no /etc/fstab file either.
That's not an answer to Ancor's question though. That systems change and people that want to administrate need to be willing to learn is not the point here. 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? Because it's old? That's not an argument you can convince people with in my opinion. If the new ways are better, or more logical or easier to learn - be it. But I haven't seen any such arguments being brought forward. And I can't see them with systemd mount units - they are IMO *clearly* meant to be generated. Greetings, Stephan -- Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org