From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 04:56:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA29546 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 04:56:07 -0800 Received: from feephi.phofarm.com (feephi.phofarm.com [204.242.60.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA29539 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 04:56:04 -0800 Received: (from dzerkel@localhost) by feephi.phofarm.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA10396 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:57:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:57:11 -0500 From: "Danny J. Zerkel" Message-Id: <199511021257.HAA10396@feephi.phofarm.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> 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". If you made the change to cause it to fail, perhaps the option should be that not mounting causes a failure, instead of changing the default behavior which so many people are used to. I think, as someone else pointed out in a later response, that adding more nonstandard options is probably a bad idea, especially if you need to use them to get standard behavior. Danny J. Zerkel Photon Farmers http://www.phofarm.com/