[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#383073: mountall.sh: tries to mount filesystems on remote block devices

[Andrew Pollock]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-15
Severity: normal

The alternative title and severity for this could be:
[wishlist] mountall.sh: honour _netdev in /etc/fstab

Anyway, I've started playing with ATA over Ethernet, and of course, this
looks just like a normal filesystem, except it's dependent on the
network being up. Where mountall.sh currently runs in /etc/rcS.d, the
network ain't up, so this mount fails because the block device in
question isn't around yet.

Fair enough.

Someone has kindly pointed out to me that mount supports a '_netdev' as
a filesystem mount option, and one can use -O no_netdev as a modifier to
mount.

So I'm proposing that you add '-O no_netdev' to mountall.sh to allow for
passing over such remote block devices at this point of the boot.

The next step is to figure out how to mount them in mountnfs.sh, but one
thing at a time...

regards

Andrew

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ii  lsb-base      3.0-15                     Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  mount         2.12r-6                    Tools for mounting and manipulatin

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