Re: Plan for NFS (was: Herding file-systems)

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Hi Bruno,

Am Dienstag, dem 26.09.2023 um 19:35 +0100 schrieb Bruno Victal:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been thinking on a plan to address this old NFS question.
> 
> The plan:
> 
>   1. Allow the file-system `dependencies' field to accept arbitrary
> shepherd symbols as well.
Sure, why not?

> This can be done by having the `dependency->shepherd-service-name'
> in (gnu services base) also accept matching against a symbol object.
> 
>   2. Allow excluding some file-system objects from being dependencies
> of the `file-systems' shepherd service.
I think we could turn this one to yet another boolean in the file-
system record that's simply named "required?".

Cheers