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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: More nits
To: tst@titan.cs.mci.com (Thomas S. Traylor)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:08:27 -0700 (MST)
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> |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
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