From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 12:41:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA20296 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:41:37 -0700 Received: from everest (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA20289 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:41:35 -0700 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by everest (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA07251; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:36:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199508231936.MAA07251@everest> Subject: Re: fdisk update, background NFS mounting? To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles N. Owens) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Charles N. Owens" at Aug 23, 95 03:17:06 pm Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1346 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.