Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [ devil-linux-Bugs-827631 ] LVM part in mountfs should be dynamic

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >>>How about a file called /etc/lvtab in contrast to /etc/fstab where
> >>>we specify the logical volumes name and their mountpoint. If a logical
> >>>volumes name is not found there it's either not mounted at all or
> >>>we could also default to mounting it at /var/lvname.
> >>>
> >>>/etc/lvmtab is already taken by the lvmtools, so I suggest /etc/lvtab
> >>>Maybe any other better distinguishable names for this file?
> >>
> >>I would prefer the version where we automatically mount to /var/lvname
> > 
> > Maybe we could put the exceptions in /etc/lvtab and everything else
> > defaults to mount at /var/<name> ?
> 
> Ok, that's about what I thought to do. Let's introduce a switch,
> eg. LVM_MOUNT_DEFAULT="/var" or ="" in /etc/sysconfig/config to switch
> between both behaviours.

I'm not following you.  Why do we need a switch?

I would simply supply a default /etc/lvtab file with the following:


#lvname:directory
swap:swap
home:/home
opt:/opt


Anything not found in the /etc/lvtab gets mounted in /var/<name>
People are free to add their own entries, or make changes in lvtab.

That way it's backward compatible, plus being easily customizable.

 - BS