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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.11.2016 um 19:23 schrieb 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

well, nearly 10 years - long before systemd even was considered fro 
initial development and long anough for anybody to do "man fstab" in 
that decade