From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mount: "nofail" option does not seem to work as expected
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 12:12:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140407101258.GG22126@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140324154426.0e5d2781@gentoo.org>
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:44:26PM -0700, Patrick McLean wrote:
> First the "nofail" doesn't actually prevent "failure" when using "mount
> -a". If any filesystem fails to mount with mount -a due to the device
> not existing, even if "nofail" is specified in the mount, mount will
> exit with a status of 32. I would expect that "nofail" would imply that
> such failures would cause the exit status to be 0.
>
> Also, it seems that the "nofail" mount option does not work at all when
> using the tag-style partition identifiers rather than udev symlinks.
>
> Using this line in fstab:
> UUID=nonexist /mnt/nonexist1 ext4 nofail 0 1
>
> Will produce an error message:
> # mount -av
> mount: can't find UUID=nonexist
> #
>
> Where this line:
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/nonexist /mnt/nonexist ext4 nofail 0 1
>
> Does not produce any error:
> # mount -av
Excellent catch, thanks!
Fixed and will be in v2.24.2.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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