On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:00:40AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:55:11PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever > > designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process > > (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access only) even if a > > single filesystem mentioned in fstab fails to mount. > > This was the traditional behavior before systemd, so one can't really > fault systemd for continuing the practice.
Not in Debian (sysvinit, upstart). RHEL, SuSE behaved exactly this way indeed. Reco