After rereading these emails, I do not understand what the resolution
is to this problem. Something needs to be changed in either
documentation or code. What suggestions do you have?

M

Jim Wight wrote:
>>> This is a little odd. yes. I can sort of understand the rationale
>>> behind it, but the result is that it leads to an incorrect result.
>>>
>>> I am guessing that the user should decide (using classes) which
>>> hosts should make this check. Bas - do you have any comments?
>>>
>> Mark that is why we added the force flag to required actionsequence.  
>> So this function is not called. Because this function fails for local  
>> filsystems, eg / is xfs and /boot is extt. The IsMountedFileSystem  
>> will detect this a "remote filesystem".
>>
>> I agree that we can remove this check and force option and let the  
>> user decide.
> 
> So for the time being I have to use 'force=true' in order to get local
> filesystems checked.
> 
> BTW, disks and required are documented differently. For example,
> required doesn't mention the force option. If they are synonyms, it
> would be better if one just linked to the other.
> 
> Jim
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