[ale] Fstab fails

Avery Ceo avery.ceo at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 19:41:46 EDT 2011


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> 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> 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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