systemd treats smb3 as local filesystem, causing can't boot failure

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • smb3 shares are not available at boot time.
  • Adding smb3 shares to /etc/fstab causes the system to fall in to emergency mode at boot time.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • systemd

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