> | And lose the ability to make permanent changes. Besides it won't lead us
> | anywhere if we start a design with a workaround. For example, the naive
> | approach has race conditions.
>
> But permanent changes are stored in the fs, _somewhere_; be it in a text
> file, or a device node. /etc/fstab has some virtues; yes?
Yes, but permanent storage needs a way to identify devices across reboot,
preferably a stable name. That is not there.
And most likely you'll want several ways. Storage devices might be recognised
by serial number, printers by capabilities, cameras by location on the bus.
/etc/fstab is quite unsuited to hotplugging. The idea of a power failure
while fstab is changed is not nice. You are probably better off with an
automounter and retain /etc/fstab for the static parts of the filesystems.
It's safer that way.
Regards
Oliver
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