/etc/fstab Lacks Mount Point For Floppy

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:34:28PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:59 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 
> > How about an ordering inside of one particular configuration file?
> > Is this spelled out somewhere?  Probably from top to bottom but can
> > one be really sure about that in any implementation?  
> 
> From top to bottom, yeah.

Is this documented somewhere?

> > Or it is
> > necessary to split one option per file, to follow what you say
> > above, in order to be sure that results will be as expected and will
> > survive updates?
> > 
> 
> I don't see any arguments for splitting this into multiple files, no. Do
> you have a specific example where this might fail? 

No, not at this moment.  I simply wonder if the next version may not
stack entries and read them from the top of a stack effectively
reversing the order?  Or maybe it will store them in a hash table so
they will be effectively randomized?   If there is no clear
requirement then every such implementation is equally valid and
ordering happens to be important here.

> I'll add some more documentation about this to the fstab-sync manpage to
> clarify.

Thanks.  This will work as a specification and if something will
violate it we know where to file bugs. :-)

   Michal