'Twas brillig, and Peter Sztan at 03/11/12 11:03 did gyre and gimble: > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> В Tue, 22 May 2012 20:03:40 +0200 >> Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> пишет: >> >>> Heya, >>> >>> just a quick heads-up. I just commited to git some work that rips out >>> the fstab parsing from PID 1 and places this in a generator instead. >>> The idea is that sooner or later we only parse native unit files from >>> PID 1, and everything else is transformed as needed with generators. >>> This makes the core a bit smaller and simplifies a lot of things. >>> >> >> Sorry for picking up old stuff, but I'm, catching up with mail and did >> not see answer in follow up discussion. >> >> So how systemd is supposed to be informed about changes to /etc/fstab >> during run-time? What partition tools need to do to ensure the same >> state after creating new partition(s) that system would have after >> reboot? >> >> TIA >> >> -andrey > > a simple daemon-reload should be enough, as the generators get re-ran > at that time
Not only that but IIRC systemctl will even warn you if /etc/fstab has been updated since the daemon was last reloaded (similar to when you edit a unit file on disk but don't reload PID 1) due to the following in the generated units: [Unit] SourcePath=/etc/fstab Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel