reopen 905528 reassign 905528 util-linux retitle 905528 nofail flag description misleading thanks
I misunderstood the description before. I interpreted it as using nofail still causes boot failure. After offline discussion with the reporter, he was saying that the man page for mount and fstab both say that the nofail flag means "do not report errors for this device if it does not exist". This is true for mount as it simply reports an error ( or not ) and moves on. However, since systemd is doing the mounting these days, its behavior without nofail is not to simply report an error and move on, but to hold up the boot process waiting for the device to appear. It would be nice if at least the fstab man page would note the systemd behavior so it does not make it sound like the only thing that will happen if you don't use nofail is to get an error message.
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