[Bug 610869] Re: mountall ignores nofail mount option

[Steve Langasek]

The 'nofail' option is documented as:
   do not report errors for  this  device  if  it  does  not exist.

The problem you're describing is not one of reporting errors, but a lack
of timeout while waiting for a device to become available on boot.
'nofail' is not a correct option to use for this.

mountall does support a 'timeout' option which can be set instead, which
I believe is what you want.  by default this gives a timeout of 30s
(globally configurable as an argument to mountall).

This option is not documented in the fstab manpage, which is a bug.
Reassigning to the mount package for this.

** Package changed: mountall (Ubuntu) => util-linux (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Medium

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Title:
  mountall ignores nofail mount option

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  mountall ignores nofail mount option. Ubuntu can not be started if
  external sas device is down, for example.

  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04

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