Comment # 7 on bug 926330 from Bernhard Wiedemann

(In reply to Thomas Blume from comment #6)
> Ok, but the default is 2 when adding a mountpoint via YaST.
> If you do it manually, you can as well just add the 'nofail' mount option.

The problem with the nofail option is that nothing tells you about it.

It would have been different, if you would have to add a "fail" option
to the important entries... 
meaning that the default was still the same as before, 
but you could change it explicitly.

man fstab  and  man mount  just describes it as
nofail:  do not report errors if ...

so nothing about the actual importance of it.


Would also help, if there was a comment in the default fstab file.