No criticism intended, but cross mounting is not a good practice. You've experienced one of the issues. Ideally you'd want to get rid of all cross mounts. Practically, in a legacy environment, that may not be possible. You can consider making the mounts soft mounts or using automount.
Cathy -- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -----Original Message----- From: plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of John Meissen Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:08 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot 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- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
