[mythtv-users] Recommended Linux Distro post CentOS

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David King" <dave at daveking.com>

>> Here is my issue with it - when it fails, it fails in really stupid
>> ways that can be hard to figure out and fix.
>>
>> For example, say you have a second non-system disk that you store
>> recordings or random things on (to keep the MythTV link).  Nothing on
>> the OS or even the users truly depend on, and it's mounted under /mnt
>> or /media.
>>
>> Disk fail?  You remove it to copy the data onto another computer?
>> Systemd will prevent the whole system from booting. It'll just hang
>> forever.  You need to boot a usb stick or figure out how to you
>> systemrescue to comment out the offending disk in fstab and reboot the
>> system.  Assuming you figure out that the disk failed.
>>
>> Systemrescue (or whatever it's called) isn't as intuitive as one might
>> think - and if you don't have a computer to search the right commands
>> on, you are toast.
> 
> Google finds this at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fstab. This
> article is also cited as a solution on multiple other web sites:
> 
> External devices that are to be mounted when present but ignored if
> absent may require the|nofail|option. This prevents errors being
> reported at boot. For example:
> 
> /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/sdg1        /media/backup    jfs    nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=1ms
> 0  2
> 
> The|nofail|option is best combined with
> the|x-systemd.device-timeout|option. This is because the default device
> timeout is 90 seconds, so a disconnected external device with
> only|nofail|will make your boot take 90 seconds longer, unless you
> reconfigure the timeout as shown. Make sure not to set the timeout to 0,
> as this translates to infinite timeout.

Sure.

But you know what's even better?

Not trashing 40 years of Linux/Unix SA training for gratuitous crap put in
there for 1% or (way) less of running Linux systems.  I to this day cannot
imaging what Lennart had on the 6 major distribution release managers that
he got them to bake that crap into them.

Me?  Bitter?

No, why should I be bitter, just because some random out of nowhere obsoleted 
in about 3 years what I'd spent 30 years getting good at?  No motivation there
at all...

Cheers,
-- jr 'you may not be wading in, but I am' a
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