Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

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Subject	Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)
Date	Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:00:03 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:44:07PM -0600, John L. Ries wrote:
> >Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd
> >properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people
> >just need to learn what the new tools can do for them.
> 
> That would be an indication that systemd is non-intuitive and poorly
> documented, which has been my impression for the past several years.

That may be, and I've listed several opinions of mine as to ways systemd
could improve for this specific case, in the blog post. However, I have
yet to see a solution to do what I just did with bog-standard shellscripts
or whatever which is clearer or conciser than this solution, despite the
niggles.

-- 
Jonathan Dowland

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on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-04-20 17:10 +0200
  Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-04-20 21:40 +0200
    Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2016-04-20 22:00 +0200
      Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-04-20 23:00 +0200
    Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-04-20 22:10 +0200
      Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-04-20 23:00 +0200
      Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-04-23 08:30 +0200
        Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2016-04-24 12:30 +0200
          Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-04-24 20:30 +0200
            Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-04-24 22:00 +0200
            Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-04-24 22:10 +0200
            Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 13:40 +0200
      Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2016-04-24 21:20 +0200
  Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2016-04-20 23:40 +0200
    Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 00:10 +0200
    Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 00:20 +0200
    Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup) Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-04-23 08:50 +0200
  Automount usb device with systemd (Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)) Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 11:10 +0200

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