Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:06:02 -0500 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not |
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:07:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > So with a good coding hat on - please don't consider fstab API, it's got > a programming interface 8). Otherwise I agree fstab.d is wrong. >
It has a programming interface for reading, but other programs can do modify (and read) the file directly. If some joker decided to change the formatting of /etc/fstab from tab-delimeted to some crazy XML encoding, I am certain things would break.
- Ted
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