Re: NFS question

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon

:Great, thanks a lot!
:Btw, Which man page contains doco for all the options?
:
:Petr

man mount_nfs

-Matt
Matthew Dillon 
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Re: NFS question

2007-09-09 Thread Matthew Dillon

:Hi all,
:Im looking for an answer to a problem i am having. My computer mounts an
:NFS share at boot time via /etc/fstab. If the server is for some reason
:unavailable at boot time of my computer, my computer just hangs on trying
:to mount the share. they were some kind of RPC errors. The problem is
:solved quickly by pressing ctrl+c, but i dont want to press ctrl+c. I'd
:like it to finish booting the system and dont hang forever on nfs.
:
:What can I do?
:
:Petr

I usually tell NFS to do a background mount by specifying the 'bg'
option.  Making operations interruptable with the 'intr' option is
also a good idea in certain cases.  For example:

fubar:/usr/doc /usr/docnfs ro,bg,intr  0   0
fubar:/sources/HEAD/usr/srcnfs ro,bg,intr  0   0

-Matt
Matthew Dillon 
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Re: NFS question

2007-09-09 Thread elekktretterr

 I usually tell NFS to do a background mount by specifying the 'bg'
 option.  Making operations interruptable with the 'intr' option is
 also a good idea in certain cases.  For example:

 fubar:/usr/doc /usr/docnfs ro,bg,intr  0   0
 fubar:/sources/HEAD/usr/srcnfs ro,bg,intr  0   0


Great, thanks a lot!
Btw, Which man page contains doco for all the options?

Petr



NFS question

2007-09-08 Thread elekktretterr
Hi all,
Im looking for an answer to a problem i am having. My computer mounts an
NFS share at boot time via /etc/fstab. If the server is for some reason
unavailable at boot time of my computer, my computer just hangs on trying
to mount the share. they were some kind of RPC errors. The problem is
solved quickly by pressing ctrl+c, but i dont want to press ctrl+c. I'd
like it to finish booting the system and dont hang forever on nfs.

What can I do?

Petr