From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753369Ab2ATOEs (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:04:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32428 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751570Ab2ATOEq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:04:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:04:44 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: /etc/fstab.d yes or not Message-ID: <20120120140444.GC13157@x2.net.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2011-07-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'd like to add support for /etc/fstab.d to libmount. The library is currently used by mount, umount and mount.nfs. The goal is to use it on more places. The /etc/fstab.d directory has been requested by people who maintains large number of mountpoints etc. The directory is not replacement for /etc/fstab, it's additional place where you can describe your filesystems. The disadvantage is that the stuff in the directory will be invisible for some tools (udisks, systemd, ...), so I have very vocal disagreement from some people who don't want to see /etc/fstab.d at all. BTW, systemd allows to define addition mountpoints in systemd.mount(5) unit file(s), so we already have additional place for fstab stuff... Commands? Objections? Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com