Various notes on /usr unification [LWN.net]

Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 6, 2012 21:48 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Various notes on /usr unification by Cyberax
Parent article: Various notes on /usr unification

I could definitely see a reworked fstab format. Even if you don't want to work in dependencies- there's some concept of ordering, at least- the format is also terse and cryptic. I wouldn't mind something a bit more verbose and readable. Just don't let Lennart Poettering get involved, or it'll generate another tempest in a teapot no matter how good an idea it is.

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Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 6, 2012 22:03 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

why would there be enough benefit in a more human readable fstab (which is mostly not manipulated by humans anyway) that would make it worth breaking all existing tools that understand the current format?

while I would agree that there are nicer ways to configure what's managed by fstab, there is a large pool of tools and training that know the existing format, what may have been a great change to make 30 years ago needs much more justification now.