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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-01-15 05:10:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-01-15 05:13:54 +0100 |
| commit | 236bc7573a400b77e515c441a34419b133d11b18 (patch) | |
| tree | e4173eca1f2fb14f5b469ca6c8fa8ba16e17eaa2 /man | |
| parent | aa6c53bf05f27bb094735e7bc2bbfc73ac7bc2ba (diff) | |
man: link in API FS documentation from the wiki
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-remount-fs.service.xml | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.mount.xml | 12 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-remount-fs.service.xml b/man/systemd-remount-fs.service.xml index d920c0c400..9fe953e8c6 100644 --- a/man/systemd-remount-fs.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-remount-fs.service.xml @@ -59,20 +59,26 @@ listed in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> to the root file system, the <filename>/usr</filename> - file system and the kernel API virtual file - systems. This is required so that the mount options of - these file systems -- which are pre-mounted by the - kernel, the initial RAM disk, container environments - or system manager code -- are updated to those listed - in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. This service - ignores normal file systems and only changes the root - file system (i.e. <filename>/</filename>), + file system and the kernel API file systems. This is + required so that the mount options of these file + systems -- which are pre-mounted by the kernel, the + initial RAM disk, container environments or system + manager code -- are updated to those listed in + <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. This service ignores + normal file systems and only changes the root file + system (i.e. <filename>/</filename>), <filename>/usr</filename> and the virtual kernel API file systems such as <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/sys</filename> or <filename>/dev/</filename>. This service executes no operation if <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> does not - exist or lists no entries for the mentioned file systems.</para> + exist or lists no entries for the mentioned file + systems.</para> + + <para>For a longer discussion of kernel API file + systems see <ulink + url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems">API + File Systems</ulink>.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> diff --git a/man/systemd.mount.xml b/man/systemd.mount.xml index 78b5f5257c..d1940831a9 100644 --- a/man/systemd.mount.xml +++ b/man/systemd.mount.xml @@ -102,10 +102,18 @@ in the file system hierarchy, a dependency between both units is created automatically.</para> - <para>Mount points created at runtime independent on - unit files or <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> will be + <para>Mount points created at runtime (independently of + unit files or <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>) will be monitored by systemd and appear like any other mount unit in systemd.</para> + + <para>Some file systems have special semantics as API + file systems for kernel-to-userspace and + userspace-to-userpace interfaces. Some of them may not + be changed via mount units, and cannot be disabled. + For a longer discussion see <ulink + url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems">API + File Systems</ulink>.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> |