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

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:31:10PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 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

At least on Debian, nofail was honoured and did have an effect, prior to
adopting systemd.