  Re: RFC: configuration file for storing persistent FCoE
information  On 06/08/2009 06:46 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: That
is useful, there is one problem with this though, it is a
regular initscript, which means filesystems on fcoe devices
cannot be mounted from rc.sysinit. We can work around this by
marking them as _netdev in their fstab options (otherwise
rc.sysinit will drop the system to a rescue shell when it cannot
find them).  There are however issues with marking them as
_netdev: 1) This is technically not correct IMHO, FCoE is just a
normal external     "disk", which happens to be plugged in in
ethernet port instead of     a usb stick, but it has nothing to
do with the network     (fibrechannel != network), see below as
to why this matters  Well, it requires the link at least to be
up, which we don't do until  And which we could easily do for
the interface in question from rc.sysinit.  2) If we do mark
them as _netdev, they will not get mounted until the
"network" is up and running, which in our