On Mon, 23.08.10 10:52, Garrett Holmstrom (gholms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > So, to turn this around. Do you think this behaviour is problematic? Can > > you make a good case for dropping this automatism? If so I'd be willing > > to do so. > > That behavior might be fine, but don't add filesystems marked "noauto" > to the list of filesystems to be mounted automatically when reading fstab. > > Here are my use cases and other rationale. I'm sure other people have more: > > * fstab(5) documents the "noauto" option Well, what it says is that noauto results in "the -a option will not cause the filesystem to be mounted". And that's still the case. We execute either the real "mount -a" (or actually something equivalent) at bootup, and that by itself won't cause the fs to be mounted still. > * I manually mount network shares that aren't always available with the > "noauto" and "user" options That's not the issue here. systemd will never mount non-device mount points automatically, unless listed as "auto". > * Removable media that appear in fstab are usually marked noauto And? > * /boot doesn't always need to be mounted on every distro And? > * I mount large filesystems after the boot process finishes so fscking > doesn't pause booting at $dayjob And? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
