Bug#756903: systemd: Boot hangs if filesystems unavailable

[Marco d'Itri]

On Aug 04, Cameron Norman <camerontnorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> With mountall/Upstart, there is a nobootwait option supported. I believe the
> behavior is similar to nofail, except that mountall will emit the filesystem
> event before finishing mounting the filesystem as well as not GAF about
> success/failure. Do you know if systemd supports this? To implement this in
> systemd I believe you would make the generator for mount units from fstab
> not add Before=local-fs.target or Before=remote-fs.target if the nobootwait
> option is used. This solves the problem that systemd does not know which
> filesystems are essential or not.
Such an option would not be the default, and if you can change your 
configuration to use it then you can more easily fix your fstab as well.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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