/etc/fstab Lacks Mount Point For Floppy

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:59 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:58:00PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > >
> > > Does 'fstab-sync' pays any attention to an order of entries in its
> > > configuration files (*.fdi) and how this relates to an order of
> > > options in /etc/fstab?
> > 
> > Yeah, the files and directories in /usr/share/hal/fdi/ are processed in
> > alphabetical order and merged onto hal device objects
> 
> 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.

> 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? 

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

David