On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/07/2014 07:26 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> Since yesterday systemd in git can now discover root, /home, /srv and >> swap partitions automatically based on GPT type GUIDs, thus making >> /etc/fstab unnecessary for simple setups. >> >> I have now put together something like a spec describing the logic >> behind that, and what it is good for: > >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ >> > > Form the FAQ: > <CITE> > [...] What about automatic mounting of btrfs subvolumes to /var, /home and so on? > > Doing a similar automatic discovery of btrfs subvolumes and mounting them automatically to the appropriate places is certainly desirable. We are waiting for the btrfs designers to add a per-subvolume type UUID to their disk format to make this possible. [...] > </CITE> > > Instead of relying on the subvolume UUID, why not relying to the subvolume name: it would be more simple and flexible to manage them. As a general rule: human-readable names should be left to the administrator, provide an identifier for humans, and should not be overloaded with magic machine behavior. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
