What they mean is when the slides were made, Debian 8 was about to be released in "stable" with systemd. With debian 8 released the only oddball is ubuntu with their own early fork of systemd called upstart. It means from this day forward the things you see in the demo are already or inevitably available on every install of linux. You don't need to install anything special to do what he's doing there.
1. Upstart is not a fork of systemd, and was started a fair amount of time before systemd.
2. Ubuntu 15.04 just shipped with systemd as the default init system (although installing "upstart-sysv" the system should revert to using upstart).
This is exactly my problem with systemd. It exposes new problems and issues while does not provide the same functionality that software it is replacing.
In this case it would perfectly if it just tried to do the mount, exactly as written in fstab. Instead it tries to be clever and ends up outwitting itself.
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