Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:37:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mounts hang system at boot time Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990730133417.20420Q-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990730093953.1231B-100000@hudsucker.gamespot.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jon Drukman wrote:
> One of my machines mounts some NFS systems when it boots. We had a power
> failure last night and the machine that provides the NFS mounts didn't
> come back up, so the other one didn't either - I got in this morning and
> it says "NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out" all over
> the console.
>
> Is there any way to get the mounting machine to only try a few times
> before giving up? Or some other way to make NFS failure less
> catastrophic?
>
> Thanks...
if you read the mount_nfs man page you'll see that there is an option
for this:
"bg" - do the mount in the background.
here's a line from my fstab:
server:/vol/extra/ports /usr/ports nfs (wrapped)
rw,noauto,bg,intr,nfsv3,tcp,-r=16384,-w=16384 0 0
the (wrapped) just means that this should be one line.
I wouldn't recommend all those flags currently, but the
'intr' and 'bg' are pretty useful.
good luck,
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net]
systems administrator and programmer
Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/
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