Bug#756903: systemd: Boot hangs if filesystems unavailable

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Sb, 23 aug 14, 17:17:05, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:33:56AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Yes, you can configure such behaviour.
> > 
> > I already have plenty of ways to configure the behavior I need.
> > This discussion is about the default behavior.
> Exactly. I hope the reasoning behind current defaults has been explained
> adequately.

From mount(8):

    nofail Do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.

It's really a bit of a stretch from this to "any mountpoint without 
'nofail' should interrupt the boot unconditionally".

Kind regards,
Andrei
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