Hello all.
If I have a disk mounted on /opt:
mount /dev/hdb1 /opt
but then also have another disk mounted on /opt/thensome
mount /dev/hdb2 /opt/thensome
In /etc/fstab I'd have something like:
LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/opt/thensome /opt/thensome ext3 defaults 1 2
My question is will this always work? When directory mounts have a degree of inter-dependence how do you specify the mount order? Does the mount process religiously follow through the order in fstab?
"man 8 mount" suggests that mount does choose the correct order to use, because if you look at the -F option to fork a separate mount process for each filesystem, it says "This will do the mounts on different devices or different NFS servers in parallel. This has the advantage that it is faster; also NFS timeouts go in parallel. A disadvantage is that the mounts are done in undefined order. Thus, you cannot use this option if you want to mount both /usr and /usr/spool." The implication is therefore that if you don't use the -F option, mount will get the order right.
Paul.
