[lxc-devel] name for 'optional' mount option

[Stéphane Graber]

On 01/28/2013 04:42 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to add support to setup_mount_entries() to ignore the failure to
> mount an entry in /var/lib/lxc/container/fstab - i.e. if the mount src
> or target does not exist.
> 
> the fstab manpage mentions 'optional' as a mount option in case the
> fs is not known.  mountall extends that so that it also supports the
> case where the target does not exist.  So we could re-use that.  Or we
> could use a new mount option (I was thinking 'nofatal' until I found
> 'optional').
> 
> Any preferences?  If not, I will go with optional.
> 
> thanks,
> -serge

I think optional would make sense as it'd cover both the use case
defined in the manpage and just extend it a bit to cover any mount failure.

nobootwait (mountall's magic option) doesn't make a lot of sense for
lxc, considering that our code currently never waits anyway :)


-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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