<p>Have you considered the automounter? By waiting until the first attempt to read a file before mounting the share, you might avoid your startup issue, and you would get remounts after a lost connection for free if there is a network blip.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 3, 2011 6:47 PM, "Bob Toxen" <<a href="mailto:transam@verysecurelinux.com">transam@verysecurelinux.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> This still will hang in startup (though you'll probably be in<br>
> multiuser).<br>> <br>> Specify timeouts in case NFS cannot start, e.g., the server is down.<br>> <br>> Bob Toxen<br>> <br>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Andrew Wade wrote:<br>>> With NFS, I set fstab<br>
>> <br>>> server:/ifs/fs02 /ifs/fs02 nfs bg,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0<br>>> <br>>> *note the noauto, this tells it to not automount. If it tries to automount<br>>> and is unable, your server will stall in startup. So you put this entry in<br>
>> /etc/rc.local:<br>>> <br>>> mount /ifs/fs02<br>>> <br>>> Also check to make sure that nfs and portmap services are started upon boot<br>>> time.<br>>> <br>>> That way, the server starts up and then mounts the nfs under rc.local (where<br>
>> if the nfs share hangs, it would not affect the normal system startup).<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> Andrew<br>>> RHCE<br>>> <br>>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, planas <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>>> > **<br>>> > Wolf<br>>> ><br>>> > Could configuration be faulty, I asked about setting an internal ntfs drive<br>>> > awhile ago and I got this link from Ubuntu:<br>
>> ><br>>> > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab</a><br>>> ><br>>> > It has links to more network configuration.<br>>> ><br>
>> ><br>>> > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:27 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:<br>>> ><br>>> > Can you think of any reason why fstab would not be read on reboot. Ubuntu<br>>> > lucid have an nfs share that was not mounted automagically when I rebooted<br>
>> > the client machine. Broke a bunch of stuff.<br>>> > Wolf<br>>> > PS mount -a picked up and mounted the nfs directory.<br>>> ><br>>> > _______________________________________________<br>
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