Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC

[William Hubbs]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:54:56AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 01:26, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > The proposal in [3], on the other hand, is to create a mount script that
> > works like netifrc. It would mount a single file system, which would be
> > determined by the link it was called from, much like how netifrc
> > determines which interface to work on.
>
> Hi,
>
> This is great and consistent with all other services.
>
> What I would like to see is how to not relay on /etc/fstab content, if possible.
>
> If it is like netifrc, there can be fstab module that provides entries
> for fstab.
>
> It can be in /etc/conf.d/filesystem.@name@ instead of openrc core. for example:

I'm not sure what you mean. Right now, I don't see how OpenRC could stop
using fstab.

I'm open to suggestions though.

William