[Bug 610869] Re: mountall ignores nofail mount option

[Ivan Frederiks]

@Steve Langasek
Looks like you misunderstood us.

> The 'nofail' option is documented as:
>    do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.

> The problem you're describing is not one of reporting errors, but a
lack of timeout while waiting for a device to become available on boot.
'nofail' is not a correct option to use for this.

When 'external sas device is down' or 'drive is not always connected'
the device does not exist (and most probably would not become available
in close future) and we want to suppress any errors related to this
fact. In this case 'nofail' option seems to fit perfectly.

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Title:
  mountall ignores nofail mount option

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  mountall ignores nofail mount option. Ubuntu can not be started if
  external sas device is down, for example.

  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04

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