Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22308: mounting NFS during boot blocks if host map comes from NIS Message-ID: <200010270710.AAA77283@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/22308; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/22308: mounting NFS during boot blocks if host map comes from NIS Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:07:21 +0200 (CEST) On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Dima Dorfman wrote: > You may also want to try adding 'bg' to the mount options in fstab. > This will cause the mount_nfs process to fork off and keep trying to > mount the filesystem if it can't do it right away. The obvious > drawback is that your system may come up in multiuser without the > filesystem mounted if your NIS server is a little slow. Well, I did this, but it doesn't help. Somehow the way changed how the hostnames are retreived via NIS. With host.conf I also had NIS first and then DNS, but everything was fine. Now NIS blocks *VERY* long. > > Furthermore, depending on your situation, you may want to look into > using amd(8). Oh, our infrastructure here is on Solaris and they have automount maps. I would like to use them, but no way. I tried to convert them automatically to amd maps - doesn't work (they use variables). I tried to figure out how to configure amd handish - I gave up after two days. But, I thought that my set-up should be rather usual. > ypbind is on /usr; what if /usr is an imported filesystem? I see. So obviously NIS lookup shouldn't block for too long when NIS is down! I'm by no means an expert, but isn't it possible to find out whether NIS is up *before* trying to use it in gethostbyname()? Regards, harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org, lhbrandt@mail.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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