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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Avery Ceo<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:42 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; transam@verysecurelinux.com<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Fstab fails</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt">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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>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > Jay Lozier<br>
>> > <a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a><br>
>> ><br>
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