[ale] Fstab fails

Thu Aug 4 13:48:23 EDT 2011

Oh, ok.. Thanks,
I have not used automount before.  Would you feel safe mounting a critical
directory with it - not necessarily a remote /home directory?
The nfs share I have up is holding the config files for a web app.  This was
our solution to having to update the config files on several servers in the
event that they needed to be edited.  Without it, my test box has a copy of
the source on it, but it is plain that this failsafe didn't work all that
well.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>  Right – Avery’s email was saying you could use automount rather than
> fstab.  With automount the filesystem doesn’t mount at boot time but does
> mount the first time something tries to use it which should be long after
> boot.****
>
> ** **
>
> Automount also means the filesystem gets unmounted automatically when not
> in use and remounted when used later.   One nice side to this is that if the
> exporting server goes down and it isn’t currently NFS mounted on your server
> it doesn’t cause problems like hard NFS mounts do.   ****
>
> ** **
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Wolf
> Halton
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:23 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Fstab fails
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> In my case, the system is coming up but just without the nfs directory
> mounted. ****
>
> On Aug 4, 2011 9:03 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> > Good idea.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Avery Ceo
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:42 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; transam at verysecurelinux.com
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Fstab fails
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > On Aug 3, 2011 6:47 PM, "Bob Toxen" <transam at verysecurelinux.com<mailto:
> transam at verysecurelinux.com>> wrote:
> >> This still will hang in startup (though you'll probably be in
> >> multiuser).
> >>
> >> Specify timeouts in case NFS cannot start, e.g., the server is down.
> >>
> >> Bob Toxen
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Andrew Wade wrote:
> >>> With NFS, I set fstab
> >>>
> >>> server:/ifs/fs02 /ifs/fs02 nfs bg,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
> >>>
> >>> *note the noauto, this tells it to not automount. If it tries to
> automount
> >>> and is unable, your server will stall in startup. So you put this entry
> in
> >>> /etc/rc.local:
> >>>
> >>> mount /ifs/fs02
> >>>
> >>> Also check to make sure that nfs and portmap services are started upon
> boot
> >>> time.
> >>>
> >>> That way, the server starts up and then mounts the nfs under rc.local
> (where
> >>> if the nfs share hangs, it would not affect the normal system startup).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Andrew
> >>> RHCE
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, planas <jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:
> jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > **
> >>> > Wolf
> >>> >
> >>> > Could configuration be faulty, I asked about setting an internal ntfs
> drive
> >>> > awhile ago and I got this link from Ubuntu:
> >>> >
> >>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
> >>> >
> >>> > It has links to more network configuration.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:27 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Can you think of any reason why fstab would not be read on reboot.
> Ubuntu
> >>> > lucid have an nfs share that was not mounted automagically when I
> rebooted
> >>> > the client machine. Broke a bunch of stuff.
> >>> > Wolf
> >>> > PS mount -a picked up and mounted the nfs directory.
> >>> >
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