From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 07:48:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA29684 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:48:49 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA29658 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 07:48:44 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.28.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Sat, 4 Nov 95 15:48 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA19653; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:32:06 +0100 Message-Id: <199511041532.QAA19653@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: CD automount and things To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:32:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199511041524.QAA00903@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 4, 95 04:24:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 668 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > > As Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > I think the final concensus was to add an "optional" keyword to fstab. > > > That's another incompatibility with other systems. Why be > > incompatible when you can be flexible? > > Why add another knob nobody else knows about, wheren there's already > "fstab" (including a man page desribing it)? I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or the other side. The "optional" keyword is definitely a new knob. And I suppose it's a tradition that nobody really documents /etc/rc. Of course, there's nothing to stop you reading it. I suppose I could point out a bit of how things get started in the book. Greg