From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 20:16:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DC31065688 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brampton@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E906B8FC13 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brampton@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so544310eyf.7 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:16:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=95I9zcWU/k3xhKV22CxREYtR+19AFe8WbxmhQZT5x2k=; b=RH90yM3QfTQetFapTzgtVKESCIv/RG85yx7LNPwckyFIiHg51cu/zoPqIM5VKm0w6j NFk4CAtmoWf91R1C3YQZEcs8ExEsEYXJROoN36A5RVWZqWE//dhu676YH8IjC0pbbwEJ FVMWISG2GFq0DtzopWscnvEZlmlVEgL3YQrR0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AMf+LTpnAhffQstl6huyunCLA408aVYvNFZxyEOr9PvHRPknkARgngkrtzVRA0rEyw B3EH31PZJUU3cdU7h4T91+IhWcAZ3WWp4G6b+LkTRi2jT2XTR3kbKXaQ1Lz5g3P6plPf El39t0H7OTShJPkhuAi2y6A3JI/N0+ZaugHQw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: brampton@gmail.com Received: by 10.210.38.5 with SMTP id l5mr5314209ebl.2.1238529340268; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:55:40 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8193f6498a5adf0c Message-ID: From: Andrew Brampton To: freebsd-fs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Auto mount and ignore errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:16:27 -0000 Hi, Recently my server hung on a reboot because it was unable to fsck a ext2 file system. This was because I didn't have the ext2 fsck tool installed (I do now). The partition in question was however not important, yet I listed it as "auto" in fstab. I would have preferred if my server noticed the problem, failed to mount it and just continue booting as normal. I tried the "late" option in the fstab but that just seem to hang the server later in the boot. So my question is, is there a fstab option which will ignore a failed mount, and if possible continue to boot? I've read the man page, and did a bit of googling, but didn't find anything. Would there be any objection to a patch which implemented a "ignerror" flag? thanks Andrew