From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 30 10:38:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2993F1515A for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA19536; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:37:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jon Drukman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mounts hang system at boot time In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message