loopback mounts

[Florent Thoumie]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:07 +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:53 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:29:04AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > > It is currently not possible to list loopback NFS mounts in /etc/fstab
> > > without noauto, because mountcritremote runs before mountd has
> > > started; mountd depends on nfsserver, rpcbind and quota, which all
> > > depend on mountcritremote (presumably because nfsd, rpcbind and
> > > quotaon all reside in /usr/sbin, which might be on a remote file
> > > system)
> > > 
> > > The file systems which I mount over loopback NFS are not critical, and
> > > can safely be mounted later in the boot process, but we don't have a
> > > "mountnoncrit" script, or any way to indicate in fstab that a file
> > > system is non-critical.
> > 
> > In many ways a mountnoncrit would be the best solution, but that
> > would would require some significant work since we'd probably need to
> > add an extra fields to fstab (though it might be feasible to have
> > a list of critical file systems and try to mount them explicitly
> > instead).  A small bit of additional care would be needed to insure that
> > early_late_divider was set correctly in either case.
> 
> Yeah, pondered adding a mountlatelocal script and a 'late' option to

That should read mountlate.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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