On Tue, 01.10.13 04:19, Tom Gundersen (t...@jklm.no) wrote: > > I'd love to get rid of FsckPassNo=, but I fear that's not that > > easy... After all it's not just a boolean, it actually influences the > > ordering of the fsck. There traditionally were two documented phases > > which you could use to serialize multiple fsck on the same HDD > > but different partitions, but parallelize it on different HDDs. Now, > > fsck since a while can determine all that automatically these days. But > > still by using FsckPassNo= you get ordering deps automatically added. > > > > a) leave everything as is and FsckPassNo= does odering deps > > > > b) declare that manual passno configuration is stupid beyond treating it > > as simple boolean. In thatc ase we should drop all references of > > passno in the sources. Of course people might complain that we break > > compat with UNIX, but well... > > > > c) Pimp up fstab-generator to write complete unit files for > > fsck@.service that include the right dependencies. Meh. > > > > d) Pimp up fstab-generator to write only .d dropins that add the > > necessary deps between the fsck instances, but nothing else. > > > > I think c) and a) suck. b) sounds like the best option to me. d) sounds > > workable too. > > > > If we go for b) then I figure people might complain that fstab(5) is not > > longer compatible with what systemd does? > > b) is tempting. Given fsck's improved internal ordering handling, is > there actually a usecase for ordering the fsck's? I can't think of any > off the top of my head...
I struggle coming up with one. I mean, the only I could think of is "oh my, it always used to work that way, and it is documented that way, you break UNIX!", which isn't even a usecase, but just confusion. I have the suspicion that if we remove support for it, and don't tell anyone nobody might actually notice. So maybe we should just go ahead and change it to become a boolean only, and not tell anyone, and that's it? Opinions? Lennart PS: And pssssst! It's now totally secret, don't tell anyone about this! Pssst! -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
