mountlate being too mount-happy

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Nov 2 13:31:08 UTC 2012


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) ?


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Eitan Adler


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