Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?

[Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>]

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 22:42, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sat Nov 02, 2002 at 10:37:48PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 22:31, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > On Sat Nov 02, 2002 at 09:04:07PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > Any thoughts on how /usr/bin/(rpm|dpkg) copes with setting up the binding
> > > > when installing a package?
> > > 
> > > postint script
> > 
> > Sure, but editing /etc/fstab from postint is messy, potentially
> > dangerous, and could possibly collide with someone doing a manual edit
> > of /etc/fstab.
> > 
> > Maybe we need a /etc/fstab.d/ directory and teach /bin/mount about it.
> 
> Or have an /etc/fstab.d/ directory plus have an update-fstab
> script that collates the entries in that directory and stuffs the
> result into /etc/fstab, and have update-fstab called from the postint
> script.

I would forget about the update-fstab script. Why merge?

There is lots of precedent for the .d/ directories in /etc. These
directories are mostly for the benefit of packages, and they have no
update-foo scripts.


/etc/crontab &  /etc/cron.(hourly|daily|weekly|monthly)/ & /etc/cron.d/
/etc/logrotate.conf & /etc/logrotate.d/
/etc/profile & /etc/profile.d/
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf & /etc/httpd/conf.d/
/etc/xinetd.conf & /etc/xinetd.d/
/etc/lvmtab & /etc/lvmtab.d/
/etc/makedev.d/
/etc/pam.d/