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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 01.12.2016 um 02:36 schrieb 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.

that's nonsesne just because common sense

when "nofail" would be the default "nofail" would be useless at all and 
you would need a "afil" option - isn't that crystal clear?

> Sergei is right.  RTFM

which one?

"man fstab" says clearly "don't report errrors if the device does not 
exist" which clearly implies "report errors when nofail is missing" and 
what should happen when something repots and erorr is pretty clear 
defined these days