'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 30/09/12 14:03 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > As we've discussed the semantics of (specifically) nfs mounts with the > nofail option, it seems that latest libmount+nfs-utils do not handle the > nofail option between them which causes mount failures if it's specified > in the fstab. > > The following patch to util-linux tells libmount to strip off the nofail > option before handing it to the mount helper, but perhaps this is too > general and some mount helpers for different filesystems need to nofail > option to be passed through? > > An alternative is simply to tech nfs-utils about the option. > > Question is: Which is the correct approach?
The answer appears to be "neither, just compile nfs-utils against libmount with the --enable-libmount-mount option" which seems to neatly solve the problem (and other one I had too). Thanks Karel for the pointer :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
