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Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the daemons-that-mount-files dept.

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: I'm surprised this hasn't surfaced on Slashdot already, but yesterday Phoronix reported that systemd will soon be handling file system mounts, along with all the other stuff that systemd has encompassed. The report generated the usual systemd arguments over on Reddit.com/r/linux with Lennart Poettering, systemd developer and architect, chiming in with a few clarifications.
Lennart argued it will greatly improve the handling of removable media like USB sticks.

12 of 541 comments (clear)

  1. heck with linux.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    we should all just install systemd and be done.

    1. Re:heck with linux.. by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Systemd would be a a great OS... all it needs is a decent init system.

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  2. Obligatory parseltongue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lennnnnnnarrrrrt Potttttterrrrrrr

  3. SystemD? by Nethead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep hearing about this SystemD thing. Is this the OS that Linux runs on?

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    1. Re:SystemD? by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think it is like Emacs without the editor part.

    2. Re:SystemD? by CronoCloud · · Score: 3, Funny

      Leaving discussion of emacs and systemd (though I run a systemd distro) aside, I did have to comment on this:

      although personally I prefer vi

      vi? What are you, some suspender wearing greybeard who still uses an ASR33, and calls bicycles "velocipedes"?

      vi is archaic and arcane. What you should be using is....vim. ;-)
      In fact vi users these days probably are actually using vim-minimal.

      Yes I know, vi as vim-minimal is installed by default, on Linux anyway, and vim-enhanced isn't. /me waits for a low 4 digit UID guy to extoll the virtues of "ed".

    3. Re:SystemD? by DeVilla · · Score: 5, Funny

      /me waits for a low 4 digit UID guy to extoll the virtues of "ed".

      You've got me boxed in a corner here.

  4. Godwinned in just 17 minutes. by mark-t · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not a record... but still pretty impressive.

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  5. Lennart P., if you're reading this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    See subject: DO NOT STOP - you're winning man... the shellscript kiddies are scared shitless & worried about their TENUOUS "job security" since you largely eliminate their homemade custom scripts via your tech!

    APK

    P.S.=> DO NOT STOP... apk

  6. Re:Adolf hitler, lennart p, donald t by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Adolf Hitler, Lennart Poettering, Donald Drumpf. All of german / austrian origin, and all horrible criminals.

    But at least Adolf Hitler never used systemd. And few people know that the fuhrer was a terrific dancer, and could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon...two coats!

    https://youtu.be/D6llaZefJDc

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  7. I'd like to share a revelation I've had... by sciengin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify systemD and I realized that it is not actually software. Every software package on Linux instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but SystemD does not. It moves to an area and multiplies and multiplies until every other service is consumed and the only way it can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. SystemD is a disease, a cancer of this Platform. It is a plague and we are the cure.

    [Lobby Scene follows]

  8. Re:Does not replace mount by thegarbz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed. The only ones upset about this are the ones that did not know what it was about.

    Anonymous Coward summarises 5 years of systemd debates in one line. Great work.