From: bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>,
kzak@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:47:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201241047.42303.roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1DF90C.5070108@panasas.com>
Le Tuesday 24 January 2012 01:19:24, Boaz Harrosh a écrit :
> 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.
I agree. And moreover extensible if they want to use xml for /etc/fstab.d/.
>
> Just my $0,017
> Boaz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 9:47 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 [this message]
2012-01-20 14:43 ` Attila Kinali
2012-01-20 14:59 ` Karel Zak
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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