Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC

[Ian Stakenvicius]

> On Aug 6, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
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> William Hubbs posted on Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:36:49 -0500 as excerpted:
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>> Also, I want to talk more about netmount and localmount failing.
>>
>> If netmount and localmount are set up to fail if one of the file systems
>> they mount fails (which is what other init systems out there do), the
>> sys admin can control whether the mount -a command cares about the
>> status of specific file systems by adding nofail to the mount options in
>> fstab. By default it would care, but if you add nofail to the mount
>> options, you would affectively tell mount -a to not be concerned about
>> whether the mount succeeds or not.
>
> [As my previous replies were concerned with this and suggested more
> complicated solutions...]
>
> I like it. =:^)
>
> The nofail option is mount/fstab native, so it's "the proper way(tm)" and
> already documented at their level.
>
> The one catch is that since it's a change from current localmount/netmount
> behavior, the upgrade guide should point it out, and a news item pointing
> it out is effectively mandatory.  In the upgrade guide (presumably on the
> wiki), I'd make it warning level, making it stand out.  Similarly, in the
> news item, I'd consider making it a separate paragraph, introduced with
> *** WARNING *** or similar.
>

Can we get "nofail" immediately in the mount -a variants of localmount/netmount and expand that in netmount to make the nfsclient dep be a "use" or a "need" depending on if it's set or not??  That would imo kill the existing bug that started all of this too.



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