You could use "user" and "noauto" mount options in fstab instead of
relying on "bg" and then run mount command with timeout by a script in
a loop very couple of minutes until it is mounted. Or give up after so
many unsuccessful attempts.
Would that work for you?
On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 20:36 -0700,
cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov said:
> You can consider making the mounts soft mounts
Also, 'soft mounts' determines error handling behavior of the mounted
filesystem, and doesn't really apply to the mounting process itself.
john-
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cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov said:
> 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
robert.ci...@gmail.com said:
> Sounds like you want autofs:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
No, different use case. What I want is for 'mount' to work the way it's
supposed to:
bg / fg Determines how the mount(8) command behaves if an attempt
to mount an export
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On Behalf Of John Meissen
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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. Gen
Sounds like you want autofs:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
Regards,
- Robert
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:07 PM, John Meissen wrote:
>
> Do we still have any Ubuntu experts in the group?
>
> I have a number of systems that have cross-mounted filesystems. Generally
>
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