Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:58:26 -0700 From: David Marshall <dmarshall@gmail.com> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Mount NFS Automatically After Boot-Time? Message-ID: <53f158630510111158q413667e2u678c290a9b58db5f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <434B7CBE.3000001@locolomo.org> References: <53f158630510110141k50281f15o23fa83e70dbb3036@mail.gmail.com> <434B7CBE.3000001@locolomo.org>
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Thanks for the great advice! I wasn't able to fiddle with the order of mountcritremote to my satisfaction without creating a circular ordering, so I wound up putting the mount commands I wanted run late in /etc/rc.local, then I fiddled with the load order of /etc/rc.d/local. On 10/11/05, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > David Marshall wrote: > > We have several servers that mount from an NFS server for a lot of > > reading and writing. We typically have this mount listed in > > /etc/fstab. > > > > If one of these servers reboots when the NFS server is offline, it > > hangs in single-user mode until the NFS server comes back online. > > > > We have tried usiing amd(8), but the sorts of traffic we have been > > generating has been just a little too much for amd to handle. > > Occasionally it will become overwhelmed and will not work properly > > until it (amd) is restarted. So, it is back to a straight NFS mount. > > > > How can we cause this NFS mount to be made after the system has > > reached multi-user so that we can log in and perhaps mount from > > another server? (The servers are in a colo, so it's not easy to gain > > physical access to the console to operate the machine in single-user.) > > > > I've played with putting a mount command into /etc/rc.local, but I > > don't know whether that would make us equally susceptible to a server > > outage. > > If you look in /etc/rc.d/ there are two scripts: mountcritlocal and > mountcritremote - the last one mounts nfs mounts if present in fstab. > > In the beginning of the file you will find the lines: > > # PROVIDE: mountcritremote > # REQUIRE: NETWORKING root mountcritlocal cleanvar > # KEYWORD: nojail > > These are comments for /bin/sh but the affect the order of execution. > The scripts in /etc/rc.d are executed in the order sorted by > /sbin/rcorder(8) > > So, you can postpone the nfs mounts till later by changing the REQUIRE > line. Note that some scripts may have "mountcritremote" in their REQUIRE > line. > > Hope this helps, > > Erik > -- > Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org > S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt > Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 > Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9 >
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