On Thursday, 20 de November de 2014 20:44:17 Simon McVittie escribió:
> On 20/11/14 19:06, Noel Torres wrote:
> > On Thursday, 20 de November de 2014 17:53:27 Marco d'Itri escribió:
> >> On Nov 20, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> The first issue (fstab now fatally blocks boot) is something the
> >>> systemd maintainers have considered (as I understand it) and rejected.
> >> 
> >> The behaviour of systemd will not be changed, but I have plans to add
> >> a fstab sanity check to preinst.
> > 
> > Just for my sanity of mind. Is this referring to entries in fstab that
> > have the auto option (either directly or via defaults)?
> 
> Yes, I'm pretty sure this is referring to entries in fstab that do not
> have the noauto and/or nofail options.
> 
> systemd tries to mount each filesystem listed in fstab that does not
> have noauto. If one of them fails, it checks for the nofail option; if
> given, it carries on regardless and hopes for the best. If nofail was
> not given, it considers the failure-to-mount to be potentially serious
> breakage, and drops into an emergency shell.
> 
> noauto is appropriate for detachable/removable media that are not
> normally present. The other option for such media is to leave them out
> of fstab altogether, and use something like udisks to mount them
> on-demand: that's what you'd typically do in GNOME or KDE or whatever.
> 
> nofail is appropriate for media that are normally present, but not
> important enough to make the boot fail entirely; if you mount
> non-essential data directories via NFS then maybe that should be nofail?
> 
>     S

Many thanks

I do not understand, then, how this is different from what sysvinit's 
mountall.sh does (or at least what I understand it does).

Thanks

Noel
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