Comment 19 for bug 1463120

I work for a major educational system that utilizes Ubuntu Server (14.04, 16.04 LTS) instances on the Amazon Web Services cloud for critical infrastructure. This bug has come up a few times, where an admin has a typo or other error in /etc/fstab, pertaining to a non-OS filesystem (like an EFS data volume), and as a result, the system fails to boot. On a physical machine, this wouldn't be a big deal: press "S" to skip that mountpoint, and keep booting; or if that doesn't work, boot from live media and fix fstab. However, a cloud instance doesn't grant you those options: it hangs forever, and you have no physical keyboard, USB port, or optical drive with which to workaround the problem.

I normally wouldn't suggest a certain priority on a bug, but this is a severe liability for anyone running Ubuntu in a cloud computing environment. Therefore, I must respectfully request that this bug be elevated to "Major" or "Critical" status.

Thank-you.