loopback mounts

[Doug Barton]

Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:18 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
>>>> 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 [...]
>>> You don't need any extra fields - just add "late" to the options
>>> column and teach mount(8) to ignore it.
>> Another option would be to use a magic number in the pass number field.
> 
> Sounds a bit hack-ish :-)

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but it's less dangerous during the
transition than needing a special mount binary that knows how to ignore an
option.

Doug

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