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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-11-30 17:50:07 +0100 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-11-30 18:54:07 +0100 |
commit | 9cb426b8bf91830c2df76f9285ed98f45265ecc4 (patch) | |
tree | 4eabf81a559618340828c3842ff6c3670a66d7f9 /doc/guix.texi | |
parent | 1c65314c60405333dde009d8c8d2e37a0a465b6f (diff) | |
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Revert "system: Add a 'needed-for-boot?' field to 'mapped-device'."
This reverts commit 3b09332adf7ce8e976a4d117a62c586a53af04aa, which
turned out to be a bad idea because we need to have dependency
information between the device-mapping service and the file-system
service that uses it.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 53bfb293b6..7c059b923a 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3837,27 +3837,19 @@ detailed below. Objects of this type represent device mappings that will be made when the system boots up. -@table @asis -@item @code{source} +@table @code +@item source This string specifies the name of the block device to be mapped, such as @code{"/dev/sda3"}. -@item @code{target} +@item target This string specifies the name of the mapping to be established. For example, specifying @code{"my-partition"} will lead to the creation of the @code{"/dev/mapper/my-partition"} device. -@item @code{type} +@item type This must be a @code{mapped-device-kind} object, which specifies how @var{source} is mapped to @var{target}. - -@item @code{needed-for-boot?} (default: @code{#f}) -This Boolean value indicates whether the device mapping must be made at -boot time---i.e., from the initial RAM disk, before any user file -systems are mounted. - -You would set it to @code{#t} for instance when the mapped device is -used by the root file system. @end table @end deftp |