Re: ZFS on Guix, again

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay; this isn’t as simple as it looks!

I agree with 宋文武 regarding ‘file-system-service-type’.

raid5atemyhomework <raid5atemyhomework@protonmail.com> skribis:

> However, for the case where the user expects the "typical" ZFS style of 
> managing file systems, we need to mount all the ZFS file systems and ensure 
> that they aer all already mounted by the time `file-systems` Shepherd service 
> is started.  This means we need to be able to extend the `requirement` of the 
> `file-systems` Shepherd service.  And we need to do that without putting any 
> extra `/etc/fstab` entries since for "typical" ZFS style of managing file 
> systems, they are required to ***not*** be put in `/etc/fstab`.

Looks like this fstab issue is the main reason why you felt the need to
define an extra service type.  Why is it important that ZFS not be
listed in /etc/fstab?

Thanks,
Ludo’.