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From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:46:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114174628.GA32053@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h97abdel.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:48:18AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

     >      GuixSD doesn???t use the ???mount??? command to mount file systems so that
     >      shouldn???t have any influence.
     >
     > What does it use instead?
     
     The ???mount??? system call; see (gnu build file-systems).

I confess, I have not really thought about this before. But supposing somebody has in their /etc/config.scm:

  (file-systems 
   (cons*
    (file-system
      (device "my-root")
      (title 'label)
      (mount-point "/")
      (type "ext4"))
    (file-system
      (device "fileserver.example.com:/home")
      (title 'device)
      (mount-point "/home")
      (type "nfs4"))
    %base-file-systems))

Would the /home filesystem then get mounted on boot?
     
     > I'm irritated that util-linux has so many, completely unrelated things in it.  For example
     > it contains the "mount", "cal" and "col" commands.    Regardless of the NFS issues, I 
     > suggest we consider separating it anyway, into several packages all deriving from the common
     > source.
     
     The strategy is to stick to what upstream does, in general, and I???m not
     convinced splitting would buy us much (in terms of disk usage, for
     instance.)

In general I think that is a sensible strategy.  Splitting, would not buy us anything 
in terms of disk space, but I think it would mean less rebuilding when some configure 
option needs to be changed.

J'
     

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-10 21:14 [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages John Darrington
2016-11-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] gnu: nfs-utils: Change input from util-linux to util-linux/mount John Darrington
2016-11-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Move util-linux/mount to new file and deal with the effects John Darrington
2016-11-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add fs-search paths to util-linux John Darrington
2016-11-11 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-11 16:03   ` John Darrington
2016-11-11 16:40     ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-11 19:36       ` John Darrington
2016-11-12 14:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-12 15:28   ` John Darrington
2016-11-12 17:09     ` John Darrington
2016-11-12 22:55       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-13  8:21         ` John Darrington
2016-11-13 11:59           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-13 14:06             ` John Darrington
2016-11-14  9:48               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-14 17:46                 ` John Darrington [this message]
2016-11-15 10:46                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-16 21:06                     ` mount syscall John Darrington
2016-11-17  9:47                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-22 19:15                         ` [PATCH] gnu: Allow nfs filesystems to be automatically mounted John Darrington
2016-11-23 22:07                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-23 23:32                             ` John Darrington
2016-11-24 16:08                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-26  9:36                                 ` [PATCH] gnu: Allow nfs file systems " John Darrington
2016-11-26 18:37                                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-26 19:33                                     ` John Darrington
2016-11-28 13:59                                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-28 14:07                                         ` John Darrington
2016-11-28 21:05                                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-29  6:27                                             ` John Darrington
2016-11-29 21:51                                               ` Ludovic Courtès

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