On 4/6/2010 1:36 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: >> I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like >> this: >> >> //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 >> >> The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up >> before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then >> hangs permanently because it cannot get the SMB share points mounted. >> This recently happened after a catastrophic power outage that cooked >> the share info on "WINSERVER". Even after it came up, it was no longer >> serving the proper shares and the FBSD machine could never find the >> SMB shares and thus hung permanently. >> >> The SMB mounts are not essential for systems operations. Is there a >> way to tell the FBSD to try and mount SMB, but keep going and complete >> the boot if it cannot? > > A bit of an ugly hack, but have you considered attempting to mount the > share via an automatic script after the system has finished booting? > > - Sincerely, > Dan Naumov
Actually that is what I was doing via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d before I switched over to the /etc/fstab scheme. I may have to fall back to the rc.d approach. It seems odd to me that there's "best effort to mount" semantic option for fstab entries... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"