RE: /etc/fstab.d yes or not

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Karel Zak wrote:

> 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.

Isn't this what the automounter does for decades?

Berny--
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