Yeah, what CHris said.
Also, there is an option you can put in fstab to allow the automount, and
background the NFS mounts ... so that if the mount fails the boot will
continue. Again, as mentioned, this will only work if the OS and your
connection method (ssh daemon?) are not dependant on the NFS mounts.
Here is what my fstab looks like. Note line 6 that specifies the "-t=10,-b"
options (to timeout the mount after 10 seconds and to background the nfs
mount).
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
Pass#
/dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/da0s1f /home ufs userquota,rw 0 2
/dev/da0s1d /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
nfsserver:/mnt /mnt nfs -t=10,-b,rw 0 0
-Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Sean Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: interactive stop on boot
On Mar 14, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Jason Barnes wrote:
Hi -- I'm running a "Tombstone" machine that's functioning as a
server. The machine is located somewhere with a fast connection, and
not somewhere that I have easy access to. As such, I want this
machine to do its best to boot up and get onto the network, no matter
what happens on boot, so that I have a chance to actually fix the
problem.
Lately when it boots it runs into an NFS mounting error, claiming that
some of my NFS-mounted drives have unexpected inconsistencies. It
says "unexpected error - help!" and then quits to a /bin/sh
single-user-mode prompt. As I am 10 miles away, this is decidedly
unhelpful. I don't care if it can't mount some irrelevant drive or
not; I want it to boot up and ask me questions later.
Is there a way that I can set the machine to do its best to boot no
matter what it finds at boot time? Thanks in advance for any help you
can provide,
Depends on the whether or not the system needs something from the NFS
mount at boot time. If it doesn't then you would do well to use amd (man
8 amd) to handle the mount. The short of is that amd automates the
process of mounting a filesystem by presenting a directory. When a
process requests a file within that directory amd performs the mount. Amd
helps by deferring the mount until something actually needs something
from the remote filesystem.
Simpler still would be to change the mounts entry to noauto in /etc/
fstab. However then you or someone else will have to perform the mount
when you need the filesystem.
-- Chris
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