Add a special mount option "failok" to indicate that the administrator wants

the system to proceed to boot without bailing out into single user mode,
even when the file system can not be successfully mounted.

This option is implemented in mount(8) and not passed into kernel.

MFC after:	1 month

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
index 1c6f17e40c51..aa50f840c2a0 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)fstab.5	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 23, 2008
+.Dd June 7, 2011
 .Dt FSTAB 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -147,6 +147,13 @@ this location can be specified as:
 userquota=/var/quotas/tmp.user
 .Ed
 .Pp
+If the option ``failok'' is specified,
+the system will ignore any error which happens during the mount of that filesystem,
+which would otherwise cause the system to drop into single user mode.
+This option is implemented by the
+.Xr mount 8
+command and will not be passed to the kernel.
+.Pp
 If the option ``noauto'' is specified, the file system will not be automatically
 mounted at system startup.
 Note that, for network file systems