On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, 17:37:31 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:04 AM Manfred Hollstein
<mhollstein@t-online.de> wrote:
just to be sure I get this right... /etc/fstab is for the local admin to add stuff which otherwise is defined by systemd.mounts? To be honest, this will drive away lots of admins coming from a real UNIX background! I always thought of systemd was a bad thing, but some/a lot of parts really work OK in the meantime, and most admins got used to it. But removing /etc/fstab? No way!
While I can sympathise with your sentiment, I'd like to point out that 'real UNIX' hasn't been a major player in the OS market for decades, and even if you look at its final bastion of Supercomputers, UNIX has been a minority player for at least the last 15 years.
UNIX was just a placeholder for a lot of admins who went through a broad variety of UNIX'es, with Linux being one of them - and yes, it has been a long time, but should they all be scared away?
Children who were born in the waning days of UNIX are now adults and working in this industry.
Kids who learned Linux in highschool are now in their 20's, working in this industry, and have only ever known Linux with systemd.
As we all get older in the inescapable forward motion of time, it's an exhausting responsibility of us aging wise ones to accept that, while we do have lessons to teach the young, we should not misuse our knowledge to hinder the progress of the potentially smarter youth seeking to stand on our shoulders.
"Come, come, Mr. Scott. Young minds, fresh ideas. Be tolerant." - James T Kirk
... while Mr Spock would immediately jump in with "this is interesting, but wrong in this case" ;) Cheers. l8er manfred