From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 14:12:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA18846 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:12:24 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA18835 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:12:11 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA02916; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 15:10:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511022210.PAA02916@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: More nits To: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org (Jeffrey Hsu) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 15:10:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511021013.CAA24971@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Nov 2, 95 02:13:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 827 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. The "retry" in that case should automatically imply "bg". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.