Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not

From: Karel Zak
Date: Fri Jan 20 2012 - 09:59:19 EST


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:43:09PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Hence, i would like to ask you to consider not adding /etc/fstab.d
> unless there is a very good reason to do it. And "to make it simpler
> for people who have a lot of mountpoints" is IMHO not a good reason.
> How many mountpoints must one use that a single file becomes a problem?

Let's imagine that you have a network and you use the same configuration
on all machines, then "*.d/" directories are very useful for you -- for
example you can create a company.rpm with important configuration and
distribute it to all machines.

Karel

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