Systemd as tragedy

Posted Jan 30, 2019 16:02 UTC (Wed) by MarcB (guest, #101804)
In reply to: Systemd as tragedy by mjthayer
Parent article: Systemd as tragedy

As someone mentioned before, filesystems are usually relatively static.

But we run an archival system where data is cycled in and out in the form of SquashFS images and there we use Systemd mount units that are automatically started, stopped, generated/enabled and disabled/deleted. This is much saner than parsing and modifying fstab while providing the same persistence.

We could use autofs for that, but Systemd covers this just fine.

In theory, Systemd should be able to work without fstab, but since fstab is usually so static, it works fine as it is.