[sheepdog] auto recovery after mount failure

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > Any idea how to prevent that. Maybe we should not create/initialize
> > the storage automatically at startup, man used a 'mksheepdogfs' to
> initialize the dir.
> > That way the 'sheep' can check if the directory is initialized/mounted?
> 
> I handled this differently in my rc.startup: rather than mounting the
> partitions with mount -a from /etc/fstab, I labelled them with sheep-FOO,
> and did something like
> 
>   SHEEP=$(blkid -s LABEL | sed -n 's/: LABEL="\(sheep-[^"]*\)".*/ \1/p')
>   PORT=7000; while read DEVICE LABEL; do
>     mkdir -p "/mnt/$LABEL" \
>       && mount -o user_xattr "$DEVICE" "/mnt/$LABEL" \
>       && sheep -D -p $PORT "/mnt/$LABEL" \
>       && let PORT++
>   done <<< "$SHEEP"
> 
> so I only got sheep daemons for partitions that I'd correctly mounted.

To complex for me ;-)

I still think a 'mkfs' tool would be better. Especially because most other systems 
do it the same way (you need to initialize the storage before use).

- Dietmar