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Bug#838887: please dont bomb out on nofail option



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On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 07:02 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when I looked for the last time (a few months ago), fstab entries
> parsed by initramfs-tools or in initramfs MUST NOT contain the
> "nofail" option.

All entries are parsed.  But I suppose you mean the entries which are
actually processed, which are: /usr   And 'nofail' would make no sense
for /usr, so I don't understand why you would want to use it there.

[...]
> Please consider tweaking initramfs-tools so that "nofail" can be in
> all lines, with it being ignored in initramfs.

There's nothing we do that would reject 'nofail', and both busybox and
klibc implementations of mount seem to ignore it.  (However I don't
currently have a test VM with separate /usr so I didn't test this
completely.)

Please re-test and explain exactly what the configuration is that
fails.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of
incompetence.

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