[systemd-devel] [PATCH] fstab-generator: local-fs.target waits for nofail mounts

[Karel Zak]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:30:03PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> What happens if "nofail" is specified and device is present and there
> are file system errors. Will fsck continue with boot or drop user into
> a shell during boot and force to fix file system failures?

fsck cares about "nofail" option only if the device does not exist --
it's evaluated before FS check. 

Note that fsck(8) itself does not check filesystems, and fsck.<type> 
helpers does not have a clue about "nofail" at all.

    Karel

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