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

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

Lennart Poettering:
> "nofail" has been around as long as fstab has been around really.

This is a falsehood.  /etc/fstab has a history that goes back to the 
20th century.  It was in UNIX System 5 Release 3, 4.2BSD, and OSF/1, for 
examples.  In contrast,  the "nofail" option was invented in December 
2007 for the Linux mount command by Matthias Koenig, Kay Sievers, and 
Karel Zak.

* http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=118425639718187&w=2