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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: OpenRC 0.18 changes to localmount and netmount
From:       "J. Roeleveld" <joost () antarean ! org>
Date:       2015-09-30 7:57:49
Message-ID: 2021365.lkuiVEzrnR () andromeda
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 04:52:51 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 29/09/2015 16:29, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> > On 28/09/15 06:58 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >> Also, we are dropping the use of the -O switch for mount/umount
> >> -a. This is being dropped because it is util-linux specific and
> >> not compatible with busybox.
> > 
> > Does this have any actual end-user impact?  AFAIK, using the -O
> > switch was 'just added' by us originally (i think to reduce the
> > explicit listing of the different fs types or otherwise simplify the
> > init script code) right?  I'm just wondering if this paragraph is
> > actually necessary or not..
> 
> As a user, that para in the news makes me ask "how does this affect
> me?". I have to go read man pages and init scripts to find out.
> 
> Perhaps this:
> 
> Also, we are dropping the use of the -O switch for mount/umount -a,
> because it is util-linux specific and not compatible with busybox. This
> only affects mounts with "_netdev" listed under options in /etc/fstab.
> Such systems should use "noauto" and/or "nofail" as described above.

Does anyone know how to solve the issue when depending on iSCSI devices?
I had to add "_netdev" to ensure those would not fail during boot.

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Joost

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