Re: mount.nfs: chk_mountpoint()

[Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:12:30PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote:
> 
> I would guess that not so many people are using the "bg" option,
> period.  Many of Linux's customers are ex-Sun customers and they
> were educated to use autofs and to move away from and stay away
> from static mounts via fstab or vfstab.
> 
> The "bg" option was a hack added to speed up system booting.

No, it is indispensable to recover properly from a power outage:
servers tend to boot slower than clients. Also, it is not unusual to
have some minor network/server problems after an outage causing the
mount to fail.

Without the bg option a temporary power outage may render all client
systems unusable.

-- 
Frank

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