I don't use mount units either, although I did look at them at some point. There's a lot more richness and flexibility in the mount unit approach, but it does leave you with a group of separate files to manage/worry about. OTOH fstab has everything all in one place but lacking the feature richness of mount units.
I suspect a lot of those feature can be included via fstab by using the x-systemd. prefix and putting it into the mount options filed e.g. x-systemd.automount. Admittedly I've only tested with x-systemd.automount, x-systemd.idle-timeout, x-systemd.device-timeout, and x-systemd.mount-timeout.
Amusingly, the systemd.mount man page says "In general, configuring mount points through /etc/fstab is the preferred approach to manage mounts for humans."
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Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Dec 18, 2024 4:18 pm
