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[Nick Moriarty <nick.moriarty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The logic in mountall.c forces the system to wait for all mounts within
/usr and /var before continuing the boot process.  Sometimes, networked
filesystems are mounted within these directories.

Because the services that support networked filesystems aren't
necessarily started when mountall runs, this can cause the boot process
to hang.  This has been fixed for Ubuntu 14.04 (mountall 2.53) by
allowing the 'nobootwait' flag to be set even for filesystems within
/usr and /var, allowing the administrator to specify which filesystems
can be ignored.

We only have problems with networked filesystems mounted under /usr and
/var; elsewhere they are fine (as the system will skip waiting for them
by default).

I'd like to request a backport of the code from 2.53, which permits the
use of 'nobootwait' on filesystems under /usr and /var, onto 2.36 for
Ubuntu 12.04.

** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1473010

Title:
  Problems with NFS and iSCSI mounts under /usr and /var on 12.04

Status in mountall package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The logic in mountall.c forces the system to wait for all mounts
  within /usr and /var before continuing the boot process.  Sometimes,
  networked filesystems are mounted within these directories.

  Because the services that support networked filesystems aren't
  necessarily started when mountall runs, this can cause the boot
  process to hang.  This has been fixed for Ubuntu 14.04 (mountall 2.53)
  by allowing the 'nobootwait' flag to be set even for filesystems
  within /usr and /var, allowing the administrator to specify which
  filesystems can be ignored.

  We only have problems with networked filesystems mounted under /usr
  and /var; elsewhere they are fine (as the system will skip waiting for
  them by default).

  I'd like to request a backport of the code from 2.53, which permits
  the use of 'nobootwait' on filesystems under /usr and /var, onto 2.36
  for Ubuntu 12.04.

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