Antw: Re: Antw: [EXT] [systemd‑devel] Why is using fstab the preferred approach according to systemd.mount man page?

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Thomas HUMMEL <thomas.hummel@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 07.02.2022 um 18:36 in
Nachricht <3aa03772-1981-eea4-ecd2-c50b9c0d022b@xxxxxxxxxx>:

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> On 10/01/2022 21:50, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
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>> Pretty much. There isn't any big benefit to using mount units (since the
>> fstab syntax supports all the important use cases), and people are
familiar
>> with fstab. More tools support it too.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> well although I'm not currently using it, I can see one :
> 
> it may be easier to configure .mount units independently (like dropping 
> a config file into a .d/ directory) instead of editing one single file 
> when done with tools like ansible for instance where you have to regexp 
> match lines to edit or use blockinfile like strategies ?

Amazingly that seems to be one case where a human has less problems (adding or
changing a line in /etc/fstab) than tools do.
Maybe that's the true state of artificial intelligence...
For a human mount units are much more complicated (IMHO).

Regards,
Ulrich

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> Thanks
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> Thomas HUMMEL