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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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