From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 1 22:24:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA17090 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 22:24:12 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA17084 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 22:24:08 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA01679; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 22:24:06 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id WAA02567; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 22:22:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199511020622.WAA02567@corbin.Root.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), nate@rocky.sri.mt.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 95 22:19:20 PST." <22770.815293160@time.cdrom.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 22:22:03 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> Ummm, actually, I'm the one who made the changes to /etc/rc. I don't care >> about the CDROM, but I do think it's extremely important that the system not >> come up if some filesystems fail to mount. > >Well, for those of us that *do* care about the CDROM, how about >making these changes a little less draconian? Perhaps a two stage >mount? Everything but the CD and DOS for the first, non-optional stage, >then a second mount of CDs and DOS partitions that's allowed to >fail? I think it would be better to add yet another fstab option to specify that it's okay for it to fail. The offending parition that was so marked would not cause mount to exit with bad status. Perhaps the option could be called "optional". -DG