+1 here for this. Having said that, I think mingling the setting in there with the two basic types would be essential to keep this simple. All the heavy lifting should go on automatically in the background. A sysadmin should only have to change the mount to "rw" or "ro" and have Puppet do the right thing. As difficult as that may be to implement :-)
On Mar 22, 4:19 pm, Thomas Bellman <bell...@nsc.liu.se> wrote: > Nigel Kersten wrote: > > TL;DR Themountprovider has used a mish-mash of checkingfstaband > > actualmountstate to determine state. A possible solution we're > > looking at is splitting into two types, one that manages /etc/fstab > > (or /etc/filesystem on other OSes), and one that manages actualmount > > state. > > [Details elided] > > Two separate types is the obviously correct way. Just like we > have two separate types for specifying whether a service should > be started at boot and for whether it should be running right > now. And just like we have nine separate types for specifying > file type, owner, group, mode, content and SElinux parameters. > > ... > > Hey wait, we don't! We only have one service type and one file > type, with multiple properties. Maybe there is some good reason > for having it like that. Perhaps like not requiring users to > repeat the same things (service name; file path;mount-point and > device) for things that very, very often go together. > > So, no, I think splitting themounttype into two types would be > a bad choice. > > Splitting the 'ensure' parameter of themounttype into two, on > the other hand, I think is a very good idea. > > The nice way to transition would be to have two entirely new > parameters, let's provisionally call them 'mount_state' and > 'fstab_state', and in 2.7 have the 'ensure' parameter translated > into those two new parameters with a warning about that syntax > being deprecated, and then in 2.8 remove the 'ensure' parameter > entirely. (I actually dislike the names I propose above; they > are just examples for the sake of discussing the principle.) > > /Bellman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
