Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 22:22:03 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), nate@rocky.sri.mt.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <199511020622.WAA02567@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 95 22:19:20 PST." <22770.815293160@time.cdrom.com>
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>> Ummm, actually, I'm the one who made the changes to /etc/rc. I don't care >> about the CDROM, but I do think it's extremely important that the system not >> come up if some filesystems fail to mount. > >Well, for those of us that *do* care about the CDROM, how about >making these changes a little less draconian? Perhaps a two stage >mount? Everything but the CD and DOS for the first, non-optional stage, >then a second mount of CDs and DOS partitions that's allowed to >fail? I think it would be better to add yet another fstab option to specify that it's okay for it to fail. The offending parition that was so marked would not cause mount to exit with bad status. Perhaps the option could be called "optional". -DG
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