On 2007-12-10 23:54, Ollivier Robert <roberto_at_keltia.freenix.fr> wrote: >According to Ivan Voras: >> And this gives it the right to block system from booting? I'd at >> least like a symlink from "true" to "fsck_tmpfs". > > It is in the are of « it hurts when I do this. Then don't do that! ». > > Like someone else said, "0" should be used on special fs (like nfs). I was the one. After a couple of email exchanges with Ivan, I also proposed something like the following, to see if he likes it better than stopping the boot process on mount failures: % Here's the source ofmy confusion, then. I don't really % understand why setting the sixth field to zero is something you % don't like. It's explicitly described in the fstab manpage as % the way to disable fsck on the particular filesystem: % % The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) and % quotacheck(8) programs to determine the order in which file % system checks are done at reboot time. [...] If the sixth % field is not present or is zero, a value of zero is % returned and fsck(8) and quotacheck(8) will assume that the % file system does not need to be checked. % % The suggestion to make it non-fatal sounds nice though. Maybe % we should consider an `rc.conf' option which controls if mount % failures are actually considered fatal or just `annoying', and % then make the failure conditional on that option, i.e.: % % mount_failure_level={IGNORE,WARN,FATAL} % % Adding a mount(8) option, which can be set per filesystem is % probably also a good idea, i.e. something like: % % /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,auto,mounterror=ignore 0 0 % % It's too late to introduce something like this to 7.0, but if % it works and is accepted as an idea, we can implement it on % HEAD and backport it later :-) I still don't see why user-error in fstab for tmpfs should be treated as a special case, but that's probably me being blinded by a few years of "UNIX can let you shoot your foot, but it's not the fault of UNIX if you do, in fact, blast it off". - GiorgosReceived on Tue Dec 11 2007 - 22:48:04 UTC
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