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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.


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