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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 02:13:36 -0800
From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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Subject: Re: More nits
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  > I think it would be better to add yet another fstab option to specify that
  > it's okay for it to fail.

Rather than yet another non-standard option, how about using the heuristic
that if a filesystem doesn't have to be fsck'ed, it's okay for the
mount to fail?  The theory being that a fs which must be fsck'ed is more
critical than one which does not.  Both the CDROM filesystems and the DOS
filesystems fit this heuristic.

Alternatively, if we must add an option, I like the OSF retry option
previously mentioned.  It's obviously general enough to be useful for
other filesystem typess like nfs.

							Jeffrey