From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 22 13:52:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA01639 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01615 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA25687; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:51:17 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04274; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:51:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id WAA19299; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:20:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610222020.WAA19299@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/926 To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:20:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hsu@clinet.fi, dg@Root.COM, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610221800.MAA23161@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 22, 96 12:00:22 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > What we *really* need is documentation on the 'bg' option (background) There's an open PR docs/735 for it. :) Unless we now change our mind to at least document the historic options, we might consider closing the PR due to lack of consensus. > which is on SunOS. This basically says attempt to mount the FS, but > keep going if it doesn't happen. > > It's in the source, but not in the man-page. Because it's deprecated. historic 4.4BSD ======== ====== bg -b intr -i soft -s hard (default) rsize -r wsize -w Heikki, please see whether adding a -b to the mount flags would finally solve your problem (but be patient, it takes quite some time before the mount goes backgrounding), then we could close the PR. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)