From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 07:23:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA02925 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:23:48 -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 HAA02915 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:23:34 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA15226 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:23:16 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA10067 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:23:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA25040 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:43:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511020943.KAA25040@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: More nits To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:43:25 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511020622.WAA02567@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 1, 95 10:22:03 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: 676 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > 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". This sounds fine to me. Hmm, i tried to look into this, but i cannot fully understand how the MOPT_NOAUTO case is supposed to work. I think, MOPT_OPTIONAL could be implemented in a rather similar way, but i first have to figure out... -- 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. ;-)