Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:34:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountlate not late enough for nfe0 with dhcp Message-ID: <4DDED57B.5040802@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik06mc6adjAeviEGa-4tvcVP_3TUA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTik06mc6adjAeviEGa-4tvcVP_3TUA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/26/2011 14:35, William Palfreman wrote: > I do think that it would be better if failure to mount an NFS share due > to DHCP not being finished did not cause the boot to halt. Non-root > filesystem NFS mounts are rarely so critical that is it necessary to drop > into single user mode instead - especially as these days many machines do > not have a console continuously attached. It would be better just to retry > mounting NFS in the background. If having DHCP up before proceeding is mission critical, set the synchronous_dhclient option in rc.conf. If you are satisfied with having the nfs mounts continue in the background, use that option in fstab. In the absence of those 2 clear indications from the admin as to what should happen, the current behavior is the right choice. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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