Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

["John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com>]

> Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd
> properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people
> just need to learn what the new tools can do for them.

That would be an indication that systemd is non-intuitive and poorly 
documented, which has been my impression for the past several years. 
There may be no good cure for the former (but a better systemadm would 
help), but there is for the latter.

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Jochen Spieker wrote:

> Jonathan Dowland:
> > I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure mount-on-demand
> > filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in
> > the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by
> > accident by issuing something like "rm -rf" - but they *also* got all their
> > backups because their backup volume was mounted too.
>
> That was a marketing hoax (which I didn't even find really credible
> because Linux' rm doesn't operate recursively on / without the option
> --no-preserve-root for some years now).
>
> > Anyway, in the past I've read some useful tips for using Systemd on this
> > list, so here's the blog post should it be of any interest:
> >
> > https://jmtd.net/log/mount_on_demand_backups/
>
> Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd
> properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people
> just need to learn what the new tools can do for them.
>
> J.
> --
> If I had to live on a desert island I would take a mobile phone,
> preferably a Nokia 8810.
> [Agree]   [Disagree]
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