Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: openrc mount service prototype

[Ian Stakenvicius]

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On 30/07/15 12:26 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:15:38PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 30/07/15 01:55 AM, Duncan wrote:
>>>> Patrick McLean posted on Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:35:02 -0700 as
>>>> excerpted:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:11:30 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev
>>>>> <alonbl@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 29 July 2015 at 23:20, William Hubbs
>>>>>> <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> so that there is a better idea out there of what I'm
>>>>>>> talking about, the OpenRC github repository now has a
>>>>>>> mount-service branch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I still trying to figure out why do we need to keep
>>>>>> fstab around. It is pure legacy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> On what planet is fstab pure legacy? Many utilities use it
>>>>> and expect it to exist. For example the ability to do
>>>>> "mount /foo" requires a properly configured fstab file
>>>>> (also mount -a).
>>>>>
>
> I think there are two meanings of the word legacy here.
>
> #1, /etc/fstab on linux is not legacy, and I don't think anyone
> here (except possibly for WilliamH as I can't actually tell from
> his statements) has been calling it 'legacy' in this context.
>
>> No, it was alonbl who called it legasy. If you look at how the
>> script operates, it would not work without fstab.
>
>> I simply asked, in response to alonbl, if it really was legasy.
>
>
>> William
>

Perfect, thank you for the clarification.
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