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

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> 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. 
There may be no good cure for the former (but a better systemadm would 
help), but there is for the latter.

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Jochen Spieker wrote:

> Jonathan Dowland:
>>
>> I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure mount-on-demand
>> filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in
>> the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by
>> accident by issuing something like "rm -rf" - but they *also* got all their
>> backups because their backup volume was mounted too.
>
> That was a marketing hoax (which I didn't even find really credible
> because Linux' rm doesn't operate recursively on / without the option
> --no-preserve-root for some years now).
>
>> Anyway, in the past I've read some useful tips for using Systemd on this
>> list, so here's the blog post should it be of any interest:
>>
>> https://jmtd.net/log/mount_on_demand_backups/
>
> 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.
>
> J.
> -- 
> If I had to live on a desert island I would take a mobile phone,
> preferably a Nokia 8810.
> [Agree]   [Disagree]
>                 <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
>

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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
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