Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:22:14 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: d@delphij.net Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [RFC] 'failok' mount(8) flag Message-ID: <58749.1307384534@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:00:17 MST." <4DED15B1.8020701@delphij.net>
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In message <4DED15B1.8020701@delphij.net>, Xin LI writes: >I think sometimes it's desirable to mark a few file systems as 'failok', >which means it's Ok to have these mounts failed on boot and something >else (a script, cron job, etc) will handle the case. Good idea. (This was one of the ideas that made me realize that we were out of mount flags, and thus prompted nmount(8). Never got around to implement failok afterwards.) Based on some NanoBSD work along this kind of lines, there may be /etc/rc.ng opportunities/work to do in this, so that rc.d/foo can depend on a given filesystem actually being mounted, since some daemons can get quite upset and hang the boot, if their filesystems are not there and/or suddenly too small etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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