Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:21:23AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On 7/12/07, Matthias Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >it would be nice to have a mount option "nofail" indicating
>> >that mount should not return an error if the device does not
>> >exit. This is useful for hotpluggable devices which are configured
>> >in fstab and might not exist at boot time.
>> 
>> We should probably ignore failures of a failed mount syscall too?
>> The device node may exist, even when there is no kernel device at the
>> moment as as some subsystems like md create a bunch of nodes
>> unconditionally.
>
>  Yes. It seems mount(2) returns ENXIO, ENOTBLK, ENOENT or ENOTDIR when
>  something is wrong with source device.
>
>  Please, see updated patch below.

Seems to be Ok for me.

Matthias
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