Re: new fstab

[Calvin Dodge <caldodge fpcc net>]

Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> 
> have to get permission from Bill Gates (THANK YOU RED HAT!). But this
> certainly appears as a step in the opposite direction; now I have to learn
> what a SCSI chain is and how the new mounting system manipulates or works
> with it or I won't be able to conveniently mount file systems from my
> Linux box to my LAN.

No, you won't.  You're not using any SCSI devices, so SCSI drives and chains
aren't an issue to you.

> I suppose it would be too much to ask for you to set up fstab so it
> will work either way?  If not, please have a very detailed, lay-oriented
> man page so us mere mortals can figure out how to mount our own files.

My understanding is that it WILL work either way.  Red Hat just decided to make
the volume name setup the drfault.
 
> I can glance at it and know exactly what goes to where:
> 
> //janmarie/RedHat7.0    /home/glen/RedHat       smbfs   etc...

And that won't change, since it's a reference to a network mount, rather than a
local partition.
 
> I immediately know by looking at this if I need to access the Guinness
> files on my wife's pc I cd to /home/glen/RedHat on my Linux box.  Nothing
> to it!

> BTW, how is this going to affect my Samba mounts?  Do they have to use
> volume labeling also?  Is there anything concrete to indicate where the
> mount point is and what device it mounts to?

Since the volume names are applicable only to local ext2 file systems, I rather
doubt they'll affect Samba OR NFS mounts.

Calvin