[systemd-devel] [PATCH] make fsck fix mode a kernel command line option

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:40:32PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 2013-09-10 02:41, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Fri, 06.09.13 14:53, Robert Schiele (rschiele at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >One possibility might be to add a new extended mount option (i.e. as
> >listed in fstab's fourth column) that systemd
> >would interpret. i.e. "x-systemd.yesfsck" or so. That sounds much nicer,
> >since it would be naturally persistent, and per-mount point.
> >
> >Opinions?
> 
> Loosely related:
> 
> Mount options are a problem with mount helpers. If you have, for
> example, a FUSE mount marked with "nofail" so that your boot phase
> does not get interrupted if it fails, attempting to manually
> mount it later on always fails, because the FUSE program knows
> nothing about the systemd-specific "nofail" or "x-*".

This should only be a problem if you directly use the FUSE mount helper.
If you instead invoke mount with -t fuse.$fusetype, then this isn't an
issue. mount(8) *does* understand these options and nicely strips them
out before invoking the specific mount helper for you.

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