From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 1 21:21:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA14760 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:21:18 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA14742 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:21:14 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA18119; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 06:21:09 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA06440; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 06:21:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA00844; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 00:38:42 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511012338.AAA00844@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: More nits To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 00:38:41 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511012206.PAA00366@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 1, 95 03:06:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 668 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > The point is, how can the system differentiate between "/cdrom" and > "/usr" failing to mount? Without "/usr", you don't have your shared > libraries or libexec, and it's just as fatal. By making only failing "ufs" mounts fatal, and perhaps "nfs" -- but's that's questionable as well. (It heavily depends on what your NFS mounts are for.) People running diskless, or /usr NFS-mounted have to tweak their /etc/rc anyway. Perhaps time to create a ``nofatal'' fstab flag? :) -- 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. ;-)