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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:59:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120120145907.GA20377@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120120154309.3ae5f9e4a8f55c477dc423ab@kinali.ch>

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:43:09PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Hence, i would like to ask you to consider not adding /etc/fstab.d
> unless there is a very good reason to do it. And "to make it simpler
> for people who have a lot of mountpoints" is IMHO not a good reason.
> How many mountpoints must one use that a single file becomes a problem?

 Let's imagine that you have a network and you use the same configuration
 on all machines, then "*.d/" directories are very useful for you -- for
 example you can create a company.rpm with important configuration and
 distribute it to all machines.

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-20 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-20 14:04 /etc/fstab.d yes or not Karel Zak
2012-01-20 14:20 ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-20 14:56   ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 15:57     ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 16:08       ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-24  0:19     ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-01-24  9:47       ` bastien ROUCARIES
2012-01-20 14:43 ` Attila Kinali
2012-01-20 14:59   ` Karel Zak [this message]
2012-01-20 15:03     ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-01-20 15:20     ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 15:49 ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 16:13   ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 16:22     ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 17:59       ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 12:21         ` Karel Zak
2012-01-23 13:01           ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-23 13:03           ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 13:26             ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-23 13:37               ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 14:14                 ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-23 14:32                   ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 13:55         ` Theodore Tso
2012-01-23 22:07           ` Alan Cox
2012-01-24  1:06             ` Ted Ts'o
2012-01-20 18:20 ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-20 18:29   ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 18:47   ` Al Viro
2012-01-24 11:02 ` /etc/fstab.d yes or not (resolved) Karel Zak

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