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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc mount service prototype
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:54:48
Message-Id: 55B959A6.5030300@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc mount service prototype by William Hubbs
1 On 30/07/2015 00:22, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 01:11:30AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
3 >> On 29 July 2015 at 23:20, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> All,
6 >>>
7 >>> so that there is a better idea out there of what I'm talking about, the
8 >>> OpenRC github repository now has a mount-service branch.
9 >>
10 >> Nice!
11 >>
12 >> But I still trying to figure out why do we need to keep fstab around.
13 >> It is pure legacy.
14 >
15 > Is it? I have heard different people say it is, and it isn't, so I have
16 > no idea.
17 >
18 > If fstab is truly legasy, I'll look into that.
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21 You have to list the standard mounts /somewhere/, it might as well be
22 /etc/fstab...
23
24 There's very little useless cruft in that file
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28 Alan McKinnon
29 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com