Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not

Ted Ts'o
2012-01-24T01:08:38Z

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:07:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> So with a good coding hat on - please don't consider fstab API, it's got
> a programming interface 8). Otherwise I agree fstab.d is wrong.
>

It has a programming interface for reading, but other programs can do
modify (and read) the file directly. If some joker decided to change
the formatting of /etc/fstab from tab-delimeted to some crazy XML
encoding, I am certain things would break.

- Ted