File system mount order

[NoOp]

On 12/17/2010 02:13 AM, Rongcong Luo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a quite simple question, how can I specify the mount order of
> the partitions on startup?
> 
> I've tried to edit fstab(5), put the /dev/sda11's line before the
> /dev/sda6's line. but according to /var/log/syslog file,  it turns out
> sda6 still has been mounted before sda11.
> 
> More exactly, I find those partitions (except /) were mounted in
> random order on startup. Is this have any way to specify this order?
> 

Perhaps you can reopen/add-to this bug?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/361472
[fstab - Mount Order]

I cannot find the "though at boot time mountall(8) may process the file
out-of-order when it believes it is safe to do so" quoted in comment #1
in the fstab man:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man5/fstab.5.html