From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 16:08:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB78410656AA for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:08:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B24C8FC13 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F0C846B2C; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:08:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 419D48A009; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:07:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Julian H. Stacey" Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:03:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20101102; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201101071529.p07FTMpD009251@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201101071529.p07FTMpD009251@fire.js.berklix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101071103.35500.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:07:59 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, grarpamp Subject: Re: NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:08:00 -0000 On Friday, January 07, 2011 10:29:22 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > I've seen a regression in 8 at work where NFS mounts seem to fail on DNS on > > every boot (we have a small number of mounts, < 10) whereas 7 worked fine on > > every boot. I haven't tracked it down yet, but 8 is certainly more fragile > > than 7 for mounting NFS on boot. > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf has nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4" > > Once I had a server with example /etc/rc.conf -n 10 > & had problems when I added partions beyond eg 10 ... > so I suggest check rc.conf against fstab & /etc/exports That should not matter for establishing mounts. Also, keep in mind that 7 worked fine with the same settings. In fact, I'm just booting an 8 kernel on the same 7 userland currently and it's only the 8 kernel that has the problem (a pure 8 system also has the same symptoms, so it's not a problem due to mixing a 7 world with 8 kernel). -- John Baldwin