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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

> often the logger).  I'm also thinking perhaps we can add another field 
> to fstab to let the system know which filesystems are required for 
> continued booting.  Everybody hates it when a fs fails and it's not 
> really needed to boot but it croaks the whole boot process.
> 
> Anything to make boot more graceful/intelligent is better, I think, as 
> there's been a historical lack of creativity wth the fsck process in 
> unix/linux as far as I'm aware, and it really needs some help, at least 
> the linux fsck.
> 

Hmmm as long as we're in the proccess of acctually thinking of adding
fiedls to fstab I was thinking if it would be possible to add some other
field with an explicit command to add a fs thus making meta filesystems
like copyfs and shfs and other being able to be mounted automaticaly as well.


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