I would bet it just has to time out. I know NFS and SMBFS can hold on for quite a while before giving up the ghost.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:21 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry? I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file system I tried to add and my system would not come back up. Thanks to everybody for helping me out and getting my system back without a major recovery effort. Any reason why zLinux dies when it finds a bad entry in fstab even though the filesystem is not needed to bring the system up? Do other linux/unix system do this? Seems a little short on error recovery but then I'm speaking as an old MVS dinosaur. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
