Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:08:27 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        tst@titan.cs.mci.com (Thomas S. Traylor)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More nits
Message-ID:  <199511012208.PAA00382@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <95110113443357@titan.cs.mci.com> from "Thomas S. Traylor" at Nov 1, 95 01:44:33 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> |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.

Because that makes no sense unless you bg the mount -- it would take
forever to time out -- ever booted Linux when an NFS server in you
fstab was down?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199511012208.PAA00382>