Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 13:44:33 -0700 From: tst@titan.cs.mci.com (Thomas S. Traylor) To: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <95110113443357@titan.cs.mci.com>
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|> > Here are some more minor points about the October 5 cut of 2.1. Some |> > are important, others are just FYI. |> > |> > 1. If a CD-ROM is specified in /etc/fstab, and there is no CD in the |> > drive, the mount will fail and rc will abort. This doesn't make |> > much sense, especially for people who don't understand the |> > background. |> > |> > I'd like some feedback on whether you would like to change this, |> > since otherwise I need to talk about it in my book. |> |> This is a known bug, and it would appear that nobody is particularly |> keen to change it. I beat my chest about it several times and |> everybody involved just sort of waffled on it until the subject died |> down again. Until then, I may just take the automount of the CDROM |> out of /etc/fstab and have people do it by hand. I hate this, but I |> lack the time to go fix whatever stupidity it is in our system that |> prevents the system from coming up whenever a CDROM isn't in the |> drive. Unless we fix it, /cdrom is coming out of the default fstab |> in 2.1. Better a system that comes up without a CDROM rather than |> one that doesn't! | |I don't understand. You want it to mount a non-existant drive? | |You can't. | |You want it to not mount unless told to? | |Put noauto in the fstab options for the device. | |You want it to mount if there is a cdrom but not if there isn't? | |You need a new option, or, preferrably, better removable media support. Why not add a new option like "retry=n", where n is the number of mount failure retries. This option is found in the Digital Unix (OSF/1) mount command. Tom tst@titan.cs.mci.com | | Terry Lambert | terry@lambert.org |--- |Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present |or previous employers.
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