From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 07:26:02 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 8E8F316A400 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 07:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4F013C4CE for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 07:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCFD2087; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:25:55 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8882085; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:25:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AE7A7B88E; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:25:55 +0100 (CET) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Mike Meyer References: <015601c75ce9$d0263a10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <17896.23312.980989.68558@bhuda.mired.org> <86lki8u1al.fsf@dwp.des.no> <17903.37547.207909.316479@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:25:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <17903.37547.207909.316479@bhuda.mired.org> (Mike Meyer's message of "Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:35:55 -0500") Message-ID: <86fy8gw60s.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland 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: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:26:02 -0000 Mike Meyer writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav writes: > > Mike Meyer writes: > > > How about an extra flag in your fstab? The default behavior for > > > mount_nfs is to keep retrying until the mount succeeds. > > No, it will fail immediately (as seen above) if it can't resolve the > > server name. The only way to fix this is to modify mount_nfs to sleep > > and retry in such cases. The *current* sleep-and-retry code is in the > > NFS mount code in the kernel, which doesn't come into play until after > > DNS lookup. > In that case, there's a bug in the mount_nfs man page, which just says > that it keeps retrying until it succeeds. PR #110062 Technically, that's correct if you specify the server by IP address or have it listed in /etc/hosts... but I guess the man page could be clearer. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no