On Wed, 23.05.12 12:10, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (barbi...@profusion.mobi) wrote:
> >> One suggestion at IRC was to just keep systemd mount units. But if we > >> should go this route, then we should call to deprecate /etc/fstab. > >> Last time we discussed about it, people said it was not going to > >> happen since some tools were parsing and relying on it. Whats is the > >> way to go? > > > > We don't really deprecate it. But if people want to they don't have to > > use it now, and can do this easily by dropping the file and removing the > > generator. > > > > You know, fewer PIDs are definitely a good thing, but for some things > > doing them out-of-process is actually a good thing. Unix knows processes > > and process isolation for a reason. > > In this case I'm still more for having the fstab parser bultin, > however I understand your point. > > In my usage I'll just drop fstab and see what happens. For sure simple > "mount /mountpoint" will not work anymore, then I wonder if there is > any plan to provide systemd-mount to be linked as /bin/mount in order > to get the mount description (device, point, options) from systemd > mount units instead of fstab. We have that already. It has a slightly different syntax though: systemctl start mountpoint.mount Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel