You could use "user" and "noauto" mount options in fstab instead of
relying on "bg" and then run mount command with timeout by a script in
a loop very couple of minutes until it is mounted. Or give up after so
many unsuccessful attempts.
Would that work for you?
On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 20:36 -0700, John Meissen wrote:
> robert.ci...@gmail.com said:
> > Sounds like you want autofs:
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
>
> No, different use case. What I want is for 'mount' to work the way
> it's
> supposed to:
>
> bg / fg Determines how the mount(8) command behaves if an
> attempt
> to mount an export fails. The fg option causes mount(8)
> to
> exit with an error status if any part of the mount
> request
> times out or fails outright. This is called a
> "foreground"
> mount, and is the default behavior if neither the fg nor
> bg
> mount option is specified.
>
> If the bg option is specified, a timeout or failure
> causes the
> mount(8) command to fork a child which continues to
> attempt
> to mount the export. The parent immediately returns
> with a zero exit code. This is known as a "background"
> mount.
>
> It works fine if I run it manually. What's different about the boot
> process?
>
>
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