Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not

Boaz Harrosh
2012-01-24T00:19:37Z

On 01/20/2012 04:56 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
> It's an old glibc API, and /etc/fstab is ABI, not a service config
> file, which now can read more than one file. It's a very different
> problem. It an ABI change, not a config extension.
>

Can't we have our cake and eat it too?

I mean why not have both?

The subsystem that you currently plan to parse the /etc/fstab.d/ will
intelligently add the /etc/fstab.d/ entries to /etc/fstab before
actually processing and mounting /etc/fstab.

So the rpm guys have their /etc/fstab.d/ convenience and the rest
of the ABI is kept intact. (If you can't bit them join them)

Since /etc/fstab is hand edited as well. There are lots of smart
things that can be done like a remark (#) marker at the end of the
file that all /etc/fstab.d/ entries get to be added after. (And
a comment for the user) and some smart duplicate removal of, and
so on ... Even a marker per line added.

Just my $0,017
Boaz