mountlate being too mount-happy

[Chris Rees]

On 2 Nov 2012 13:31, "Eitan Adler" <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
> On 2 November 2012 06:34, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [Those who commented and helped in IRC are in CC]
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As described in conf/137692 rc.d/mountlate runs mount -a -d -l to find
> > late filesystems, and mounts them.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this also tries again to mount filesystems that are
> > awaiting mount from the first time; for example a background nfs mount
> > will not be mounted at this time, so mountlate tries to mount it
> > again.
> >
> > The solution is for mountlate to check ONLY for filesystems that
> > should be mounted late.
>
> perhaps we can teach mount a new option to only mount late filesystems
(-L) ?

I had been idly contemplating that too- it's a good idea.

I'll take a look.

Chris