[systemd-devel] Emergency mode if non-critical /etc/fstab entries are missing

[Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)]

On 09/26/2016 10:31 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 26.09.2016 um 11:27 schrieb Oliver Neukum:
>> On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 23:57 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>> RTFM - when you don't say "nofail" it's ecpected to be crucial
>>>
>>> your entry says it's crucial
>>
>> That in turn raises the question why the default should be different
>> than what is used in earlier systems
>
> because earlier systems (sysvinit) hat no concept like emergency mode
> as they where a lousy bunch of scripts where you ended in case of a
> crucial disk failing in a undefined state?
>
> because earlier systems had no concept for "nofail" or "fail" at all

Yes, they did.  Boot would fail if a device in fstab was set to mount on
boot (option "noauto" absent) and it was not present during boot.

This is precisely why nofail is the default.

Sergei is right.  RTFM.

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    Rudd-O
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