Why not just use the automounter? emerge -s autofs

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:33, Marshal Newrock wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Janne Johansson wrote:

> > If the laptop's not plugged in, after about 10-20 seconds rpc gives up
> > with destination unreachable and the filesystem just doesn't mount.
>
> Yup. If you are worried about the delay, you can always take it out of
> the fstab and mount it manually.

It seems to me that a speedup would be to first attempt to ping the host,
and if that succeeds, then try to mount the NFS share.  This would have to
be optional, of course, since some hosts may be configured not to reply to
pings.
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