Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mountall
It is legal (and easy enough) in /etc/fstab to bind mount part of a NFS
file system to somewhere else. But, this does not work reliably with
the current /etc/init scripts.
Essentially, mountall needs to be run again, after NFS mounting
completes.
Here's my use case (lines from /etc/fstab):
# Mount hard disk:
UUID=7c697461-7f39-4d53-a257-4c681d990866 / ext4
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Mount NFS from server:
desk.lan:/ /export/big nfs4 defaults,soft 0 0
# Bind some remote directories into each home directory:
/export/big/gpk /home/gpk/n bind defaults,bind 0 0
/export/big/MyDocuments/gpk /home/gpk/MyDocuments bind defaults,bind 0 0
Often, on boot, /home/gpk/n and /home/gpk/MyDocuments are missing. You
can make them appear with "sudo mount -a", which suggests that mountall
needs to be called again.
Possibly, this could be handled inside mountall? It could take the
responsibility for re-trying bind mounts after NFS mounts succeed?
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
$
This is running karmic, updated as of this morning. So, it's the -beta or -rc.
** Affects: mountall (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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upstart/mountall doesn't handle bind mounts reliably
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459642
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