[PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

[Robert Citek]

Sounds like you want autofs:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs

Regards,
- Robert

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:07 PM, John Meissen <john at meissen.org> wrote:
>
> 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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