On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > I'd like to add support for /etc/fstab.d to libmount. The library is > currently used by mount, umount and mount.nfs. The goal is to use it > on more places. > > The /etc/fstab.d directory has been requested by people who maintains > large number of mountpoints etc. > > The directory is not replacement for /etc/fstab, it's additional place > where you can describe your filesystems. As a general comment, I would like to use fstab.d for replacing the initscripts which mount kernel filesystems in Debian initscripts (sysvinit). We currently hardcode the logic to mount each filesystem and additionally hardcode the defaults, and permit the defaults to be overridden by the user via /etc/default/* or via entries in /etc/fstab. This could be done much more straightforwardly using entries such as /etc/fstab.d/kernfs and /etc/fstab.d/tmpfs etc. >From the distributor's POV, this can then take advantage of the package manager's conffile handling, meaning it's much simpler for the user to customise. >From the initscripts POV, were systemd to also use the same approach, we could then share the configuration between the different init systems. Note that I've not actually taken any of these steps yet; I'm about to test it with the upcoming util-linux release and the current prerelease, but it is something under consideration. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
