[pve-devel] [PATCH storage v2 2/3] disks: die if storage name is already in use

[Aaron Lauterer]

On 8/19/22 10:21, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On August 18, 2022 5:31 pm, Aaron Lauterer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/18/22 17:22, Aaron Lauterer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/17/22 13:42, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:[..]
>>>>> +    die "a systemd mount unit already exists: ${mountunitpath}\n" if -e
>>>>> $mountunitpath;
>>>>
>>>> could check if it's identical to the one we'd generate (in the spirit of
>>>> patch #3 ;))
>>>
>>> I looked into it, depending on how hard we want to match the mount unit, this
>>> could be a bit hard. It contains the /dev/disk/by-uuid/... path which will not
>>> be the same as it changes with each FS creation (IIUC).
>>
>> The question is, if it is a good idea to have the check since there is no easy
>> way for the user to remedy the problem without doing a manual `rm
>> /etc/systemd/system/foo.mount`.
> 
> *could* be solved by having a force parameter I guess? not sure that's a
> good idea, just throwing it out there ;)
> 

a short off list discussion brought up that we indeed can remove dangling mount 
units already, so keeping the check is okay since users can quite easily remove it