And the reason you’ll want to do this is that it exposes FS mounts in the service dependency tree, so e.g. you can delay starting PostgreSQL until after you’ve mounted the network share that it’s using as a backing store, while letting unrelated tasks start concurrently.
If all you want to do is pass some special mount flags (e.g. x-systemd.automount) then fstab is the way, after all it’s still systemd that’s parsing and managing it.
And the reason you’ll want to do this is that it exposes FS mounts in the service dependency tree, so e.g. you can delay starting PostgreSQL until after you’ve mounted the network share that it’s using as a backing store, while letting unrelated tasks start concurrently.
If all you want to do is pass some special mount flags (e.g.
x-systemd.automount) then fstab is the way, after all it’s still systemd that’s parsing and managing it.