>I've had bad experience setting NFS mounts in /etc/fstab. The problem is: >If the filesystem can't mount for any reason, then the machine doesn't come >up. Unless you set it as a "soft" mount, in which case, the slightest >little network glitch causes clients to lose their minds.
There is also a "bg" mount option: the mount will continue in the background when it fails; however, if a NFS mount is always needed, I suggest to create it in /etc/auto_direct. The mount isn't performed at boot then but it is delayed until the mountpoint is accessed. >What I wrote in the previous email, about using automount and hard >interruptable NFS mounts was very well thought out and based on years of >commercial deployment of NFS systems. Like I said, it's rock solid if >configured as I described. It's resilient against network failure during >boot, or during operation, yet it's force-interruptable by root if >necessary, which is extremely rare. I agree. automount and not /etc/vfstab. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
