> Again we come to what "critical" means. If you have your /build in > your /etc/fstab, you boot will still fail if you can't mount that > filesystem (right)?
In my experience, yes, and that is a problem. There really should be a way to mark an fstab entry "process this if you can, but if you can't don't worry about it". (This would apply to things like mount -a and fsck -p and such.) The closest thing I have to a current example is my rotating backup filesystem; if it's not there, the relevant system can come up fine for all other purposes, and I sometimes want it to. I currently handle this by leaving it out of fstab entirely, mounting it (and starting the relevant daemon) manually, but that is suboptimal, especially for unattended boots such as powerfail recovery. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
