-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 30/07/15 12:26 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:15:38PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 30/07/15 01:55 AM, Duncan wrote: >>>> Patrick McLean posted on Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:35:02 -0700 as >>>> excerpted: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:11:30 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev >>>>> <alo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 29 July 2015 at 23:20, William Hubbs >>>>>> <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> so that there is a better idea out there of what I'm >>>>>>> talking about, the OpenRC github repository now has a >>>>>>> mount-service branch. >>>>>> >>>>>> But I still trying to figure out why do we need to keep >>>>>> fstab around. It is pure legacy. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> On what planet is fstab pure legacy? Many utilities use it >>>>> and expect it to exist. For example the ability to do >>>>> "mount /foo" requires a properly configured fstab file >>>>> (also mount -a). >>>>> > > I think there are two meanings of the word legacy here. > > #1, /etc/fstab on linux is not legacy, and I don't think anyone > here (except possibly for WilliamH as I can't actually tell from > his statements) has been calling it 'legacy' in this context. > >> No, it was alonbl who called it legasy. If you look at how the >> script operates, it would not work without fstab. > >> I simply asked, in response to alonbl, if it really was legasy. > > >> William >
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