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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:43:25 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: More nits
Message-ID:  <199511020943.KAA25040@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511020622.WAA02567@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 1, 95 10:22:03 pm

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As David Greenman wrote:
> 
>    I think it would be better to add yet another fstab option to specify that
> it's okay for it to fail. The offending parition that was so marked would not
> cause mount to exit with bad status. Perhaps the option could be called
> "optional".

This sounds fine to me.

Hmm, i tried to look into this, but i cannot fully understand how the
MOPT_NOAUTO case is supposed to work.  I think, MOPT_OPTIONAL could be
implemented in a rather similar way, but i first have to figure out...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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