On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:55 AM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote:
Does systemd not use the standard mount program and follow /etc/fstab?
It does. Though it does not use "mount -a", but rather mounts each fs separately.
It's the classic technical support problem with multiple moving pieces with each vendor pointing at the other one. And it seems that Poettering's attitude is particularly unhelpful here, which means that *when* (I'm not going to be so naive as to say *if*) such problems arise, we may well need another way to deal with them. Perhaps that's what we should be discussing here.
The systemd devs do have the attitude of not working around bugs, but fixing them where they are (which I agree with). However, not to the extent that it causes problems that we in turn have to work around downstream. Overall, I am *very* satisfied with the level of support upstream provides to the distros. Quote from IRC today: #systemd: mezcalero » falconindy: ah, arch switches for good? #systemd: mezcalero » falconindy: that's great news #systemd: mezcalero » falconindy: if you need any upstream support for this, just ping (where mezcalero is Lennart and falconindy is Dave). Really, I don't think this is something we need to worry about. -t