From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 17:14:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7A216A401 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:14:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B3513C4A5 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:14:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l22HEJYH020744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:14:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id l22HEHst020561; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:14:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:14:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Steven Hartland Message-ID: <20070302171414.GA95861@dan.emsphone.com> References: <015601c75ce9$d0263a10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <015601c75ce9$d0263a10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:14:49 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 02), Steven Hartland said: > Another observation from my recent dealings with using > NFS based /usr is that the remote critical mounts via > nfs dont always give the network enough time to > initialise before running. The first error displayed > is: > Mounting NFS file systems:mount_nfs: nfs1: hostname nor servname provided, > or not known > > This is particularly noticeable when the machine is > connected to Cisco equipment as they take quite a > while link to the connected host after initialisation. That can usually be fixed by making sure you have portfast enabled on the Cisco for any non-switch ports, btw. Takes the port setup time down from 30 seconds to under 5. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com