-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/23/10 9:27 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > 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? > And how does a system admin/user get the old functionality back, where there was a line in /etc/fstab that made it easy to mount certain things manually when it was convenient and/or safe for the user to do so? I think adding more flexibility is interesting, but not at the cost of changing (rather drastically) the semantics of an established option. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxysgoACgkQ4v2HLvE71NXJxQCaA/SxQ5yEFxiEtmCv/dvhl7+X DwoAniGV3PH4WiHDdt3S8iQinOqxxzIY =q9ab -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
