Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool

Re:Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool by victorhugo31337 on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:04AM (#12336383)

Seems over-engineered in my opinion. Why not use a simple shell script for mount dependencies and autofs for auto-mounting? Having a service manager job queue to mount a file system is a bit much.

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Re:Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool by wyldfire on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:36AM (#12336585)

That seems to be a popular opinion whenever systemd-subsumes-feature-x comes up.

I'm on the fence. I see that systemd is making strides in "fixing" feature gaps that are mostly a consequence of SysV's original goals. I am slowly struggling to replace my understanding of SysV features with systemd's.

For user-interactive/desktop style linux computers, systemd can help linux compete well with OS X and other modern OSs. The great news is that there will probably always be a linux distro that will leverage SysV for its simplicity and if we need targets that are simple, it will meet that need.

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Re:Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool by brimstedt on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:51AM (#12344688)

What about the overhead of starting bash processes for everything, not to mention parse files, interpret and whatnot?

(Presuming systemd is compiled code)

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