On 13 May 2015 at 13:33, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > On Tue, 12.05.15 19:29, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidj...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> All examples can be configured using drop-ins. Do we really need yet >> another syntax now? > > Well, even though units are all-powerful, I still believe that fstab > is probably where most people will configure their stuff, simply > because it's so much simpler to use. >
... and the only place where you can define different mount options and expect them to take effect. This is because remount-fs only remounts things defined in fstab, and doesn't remount things that are defined via .mount units. > Now, of course, we shouldn't try to reimplement all possible settings > that .mount unit files provide as fstab options. But the most obvious > ones probably *do* make sense to add, and x-systemd.requires= is > probably one of them. It's not only useful for stuff like overlayfs, > but also pretty essential for things like ext3, ext4, xfs which > support external journal logging devices, for which the mounts need to > express dependencies: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164334 > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering, Red Hat > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Regards, Dimitri. Pura Vida! https://clearlinux.org Open Source Technology Center Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Co. Reg. #1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
