Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs.man: document incompatibility between "bg" option and
 systemd.
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: systemd-devel@freedesktop.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
        Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:26:54 -0400
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Hey Neil,

On 07/04/2017 06:20 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Tue, May 30 2017, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
>> Systemd does not, and will not, support "bg" correctly.
>> It has other, better, ways to handle "background" mounting.
> 
> For those who aren't closely watching systemd development, a
> patch was recently accepted which causes systemd to work correctly with
> NFS bg mounts.  So the above "and will not" was, happily, not correct.
Could you please post a pointer to the thread?

tia,

steved.