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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 1995 15:10:52 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        hsu@freefall.freebsd.org (Jeffrey Hsu)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: More nits
Message-ID:  <199511022210.PAA02916@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511021013.CAA24971@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Nov 2, 95 02:13:36 am

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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.

The "retry" in that case should automatically imply "bg".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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