localmount: Allow users to control whether errors are ignored

X-Gentoo-Bug: 572138
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572138

conf.d/localmount

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 # Stop the unmounting of certain points.
 # This could be useful for some NFS related work.
 #no_umounts="/dir1:/var/dir2"
+#
+# Ignore errors when mounting local file systems.
+# This should be left alone unless you know what you are doing. If it is
+# set to yes, not only will we allow mount failures, but we will ignore
+# syntax errors in fstab.
+#ignore_mount_errors="NO"

init.d/localmount.in

@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ start()
 	rc=$?
 	if [ "$RC_UNAME" != Linux ]; then
 		rc=0
+	elif yesno "${ignore_mount_errors:-NO}"; then
+		if [ $rc -ne 0 ]; then
+			ewarn "localmount: errors detected, but ignored"
+		fi
+		rc=0
 	fi
 	return $rc
 }