On 06/07/2017 04:12 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 06.06.17 14:07, Steve Dickson (SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On 05/29/2017 06:19 PM, NeilBrown wrote: >>> >>> Systemd does not, and will not, support "bg" correctly. >>> It has other, better, ways to handle "background" mounting. >> The only problem with this is bg mounts still work at least >> up to 4.11 kernel... >> >> It appears there is a problem with a 4.12 kernel. The mount no >> longer errors out with ECONNREFUSED it just hangs in the >> kernel trying forever... It sounds like a bug to me but >> maybe that change was intentional.. Anna?? Trond??? >> >> So I'm a bit hesitant to commit this since not accurate, yet. >> >> Finally, the whole idea of systemd randomly/silently >> strip off mount options is crazy... IMHO... >> >> Just because a concept that has been around for years >> does not fix well in the systemd world it gets >> rip out??? IDK... but I think we can do better than that. > > Well "bg" doesn't really work on systemd systems, and this was never > different, hence I think it's only fair to document that it is > incompatible with systemd. I'm seeing it work just fine... /etc/fstab: nfssrv:/home/tmp /mnt/tmp nfs bg 0 0 nfssrv is down reboot client login to client # ps ax | grep mount 980 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/mount.nfs nfssrv:/home/tmp /mnt/tmp -o rw,bg > In addition, I have the suspicion it is not > used very widely, since I never actually got complaints about it. Since it seems to be still working we probably would not hear any complaints about it... steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html