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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:14:08 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: loopback mounts
Message-ID:  <44B52DE0.10406@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1152696361.12237.15.camel@mayday.esat.net>
References:  <86odvwzjjz.fsf@xps.des.no>	 <20060711155312.GA20418@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <86ac7gqeal.fsf@xps.des.no>	 <44B3DD71.5090607@FreeBSD.org> <1152696361.12237.15.camel@mayday.esat.net>

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Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:18 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
>>>> In many ways a mountnoncrit would be the best solution, but that
>>>> would would require some significant work since we'd probably need to
>>>> add an extra fields to fstab [...]
>>> You don't need any extra fields - just add "late" to the options
>>> column and teach mount(8) to ignore it.
>> Another option would be to use a magic number in the pass number field.
> 
> Sounds a bit hack-ish :-)

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but it's less dangerous during the
transition than needing a special mount binary that knows how to ignore an
option.

Doug

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