Karel Zak wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 01:56:51PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Karel Zak wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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On 11/24/2014 6:37 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
The current trend is to use partition type to define for what
purpose we want to use the partition (for example "this is /home")
independently on partition format.
I wouldn't call this bone headed idea of redhat's a trend. Using
partition table type codes to decide to auto mount in particular parts
of the filesystem is such a brain damaged idea, those who thought it
up need beaten with a clue-by-four and its use needs to be *strongly*
discouraged.
well, it's designed for auto-generated fstab-less systems like
containers/virt images, etc. I'm not big fan of this feature, but for
some use cases it makes sense. (And it's systemd upstream decision.)
Anyway, use partition type for "usage" makes more sense than for "fs-type".
Since when is systemd upstream of util-linux?
Ah.. freedesktop guys introduced some new GUID and util-linux project
has accepted these identifiers (rather than interpret these IDs as
"unknown") ... as well as we accepted partition IDs for Apple stuff,
as well as we accepted Hurd patches, ports to freebsd, uClibc,
not-perfect zram stuff from kernel, stuff from SysVinit, and many
many many other things.
I don't plan to be censor for another projects and apply any
emotional criteria. The reason why this project still alive is that
we are very friendly to arbitrary distributions and another projects.
I have not problem with that. I just don't want to see a hard
dependency on systemd like other projects have done. There are a lot of
projects that are mutually dependent, but the term upstream sounded some
alarm bells for me.
I do think util-linux is managed in an excellent way.
-- Bruce
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