Re: [PATCH] honor nofail option in fsck

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:15:53AM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> analog to mount gracefully ignoring non existing devices if the "nofail"
> option is specified in fstab, also have fsck -A skip them. This way it's
> possible to have devices optionally not available during boot but still
> have them fsck'd if they are there.

 Ah yes, this is better that the original Matthias' "fsck -X" patch.
 (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/5377)

 From my point of view the patch looks good, but it would be nice to
 add a note about "nofail" to the fsck.8 man page.

    Karel

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