mount(8) bug? rc.d/mountlate bug? bug in both?

[Doug Barton]

On 12/02/2011 02:08, Devin Teske wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Barton [mailto:dougb at FreeBSD.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 9:32 PM
>> To: Devin Teske
>> Cc: freebsd-rc at freebsd.org; Ken Smith; Parker-Smith; Dave at FreeBSD.ORG;
>> phk at freebsd.org; 'Julian Elischer'
>> Subject: Re: mount(8) bug? rc.d/mountlate bug? bug in both?
>>
>> Short answer, tag the mount(s) noauto in fstab, and mount them in
> /etc/rc.local.
>>
> 
> That may be the simplest approach.
> 
> However, we're looking more for a solution that involves keeping the NFS mounts
> in fstab(5).

Why said anything about moving the NFS mounts out of fstab? Did you
actually ready what I wrote?

Not to mention, you specifically asked for a solution that involved no
code changes. Now you're proposing code changes.

> I propose the following [UNTESTED] patch, which tries to make remote-errors
> non-fatal to a filesystem marked as "bg".

I would not be supportive of such a modification. An error is an error,
and needs to be flagged as such.



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