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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:10:44
Message-Id: m3si7x6zwb.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC by William Hubbs
1 >>>>> "WH" == William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> writes:
2
3 WH> The other change I want to make, considering that the mount.* scripts
4 WH> will actually do the work of mounting the file systems, is to turn
5 WH> localmount and netmount into wrappers which will do nothing other than
6 WH> pull in the appropriate mounts. The sys admin would have to configure
7 WH> which mounts are local vs network using settings in
8 WH> /etc/conf.d/{local,net}mount.
9
10 WH> What do folks think of these changes?
11
12 For local filesystems, mount -a is exactly right and should remain. At
13 least for those of us who prefer only ever halving to edit fstab(5).
14
15 Remote filesystems might be differnt, but for local filesystems the
16 status quo is better.
17
18 -JimC
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20 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC Gregory Woodbury <redwolfe@×××××.com>