Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:36:48 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles N. Owens) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk update, background NFS mounting? Message-ID: <199508231936.MAA07251@everest> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950823150751.26560V-100000@alpha.enc.edu> from "Charles N. Owens" at Aug 23, 95 03:17:06 pm
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> Hi all, > For anyone interested, I was able to get my 4 gig scsi drive going. I > couldn't get fdisk to do it's thing (at least as far as I could tell), so > instead I simply booted from the install floppy and did a minimal install > on the the new drive. Worked like a charm. It is a bit of a kludgy way > to go, though. Why can't we have a utility that has the brains of sysinstall > that shields us from the fdisk and disklabel yuckiness? > Anyway, my real question is regarding background NFS mounts. Do they work? > I tried both of the following: > mount -o bg -t nfs -a (had to dig through the source to > figure out the 'bg' option :) > and > mount_nfs -b server:resource mountpoint > and nothing got mounted! If, however, I do a mount -t nfs -a > everthing appears fine (as it should). > I'd really like to have background mounts so stuff gets remounted properly > in the case of a big power loss. Is this currently broken? It works (mostly) here. Here's an entry from fstab: rainier:/VOL2/src /usr/src nfs rw,bg,soft 0 0 rainier:/VOL2/obj /usr/obj nfs rw,bg,soft 0 0 rainier:/VOL2/ports /usr/ports nfs rw,bg,soft 0 0 It seems that if the NFS server is down for less than a trivial amount of time, the NFS mount is "lost", and never regained. Short downtimes don't seem to cause any problems.
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