Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool

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Seems over-engineered in my opinion. Why not use a simple shell script for mount dependencies and autofs for auto-mounting? Having a service manager job queue to mount a file system is a bit much.

That seems to be a popular opinion whenever systemd-subsumes-feature-x comes up.

I'm on the fence. I see that systemd is making strides in "fixing" feature gaps that are mostly a consequence of SysV's original goals. I am slowly struggling to replace my understanding of SysV features with systemd's.

For user-interactive/desktop style linux computers, systemd can help linux compete well with OS X and other modern OSs. The great news is that there will probably always be a linux distro that will leverage SysV for its simplicity and if we need targets that are simple, it will meet that need.

What about the overhead of starting bash processes for everything, not to mention parse files, interpret and whatnot?

(Presuming systemd is compiled code)

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