[PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

John Meissen john at meissen.org
Sat Mar 18 00:07:51 UTC 2017


Do we still have any Ubuntu experts in the group?

I have a number of systems that have cross-mounted filesystems. Generally 
things work OK, but after a power outage today I noticed an issue during boot.

One of the systems didn't have the nfs server running (other issues), and my 
main server stopped during the boot process and waited for manual intervention. 
Something like "remote system not responding, press "S" to skip".

WTF.

I have the "bg" option specified in fstab. If I run the mount command manually 
after the system is up, the mount immediately backgrounds.

This is exactly the OPPOSITE of the way I would want a server to act. There may 
be no one here to intervene after a power failure, and the LAST thing I want to 
happen is for the system to hang during the boot if a remote system is 
temporarily unavailable. That's exactly the time I would want it to background 
itself.

Can someone tell me wtf is going on, and how I can change this behavior?

john-






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