From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 23:33:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007F4106566C for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from mail.netmusician.org (dorian.netmusician.org [66.244.95.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C080F8FC17 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C181B87D for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:18:27 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netmusician.org Received: from mail.netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dorian.netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id VoPXCw8Zx9kH for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:18:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from Shakti.local (c-67-176-145-181.hsd1.in.comcast.net [67.176.145.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 92134B874 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:18:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B9C1D41.5000007@netmusician.org> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:18:25 -0500 From: Joe Auty User-Agent: Postbox 1.1.2 (Macintosh/20100308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: fstab NFS mount option recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:33:37 -0000 Hello, I'm presenting NFS shares to some FreeBSD VM guests with the following mount options (from my /etc/fstab): nfsserverip:mymount /mountdir nfs rw,tcp,intr,noatime,nfsv3,-w=32768,-r=32768 0 0 This seems to work well, except I have to manually load MySQL, Apache, and Postfix at boot time, as my /usr/local directory is hosted on my NFS share on this test server (these start up normally when /usr/local resides on a local hard drive). Is it generally a bad idea to host a share like this on NFS? I'm thinking that it probably is and am happy to serve this locally if this would be better. However, if this is not a red flag and there is a way to get these services to start up on their own at boot, could you please let me know? How about the wsize and rsize numbers? I was unable to find any resources for determining what these numbers best be set as for FreeBSD as a VM guest. Any pointers? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org