On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > We saw it includes /dev, /dev/shm etc. Is there any *reasonable* need > to mount sysfs somewhere else than /sys. Or /dev with mode other than 755? > Those all directories are mounted _identically_ on every Linux distribution > down here. Why pollute fstab with repeated lines on million machines? The issue here isn't that the reporter wanted to mount them somewhere else, but he wanted to set the default mount options to something else (or in fact to set them back to how they are now -- systemd has decided to use some other mount options entirely without consulting anyone else). I think it's very reasonable to want to edit /etc/fstab to change the default mount options of these filesystems. Suppose that /dev/shm defaults to allowing suid and exec. At some point in the future a security problem is found which can be worked around by temporarily setting nosuid on /dev/shm (while the real issue is fixed). An administrator can't do that without recompiling systemd. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
