[ale] Fstab fails

[Lightner, Jeff]

Right - Avery's email was saying you could use automount rather than fstab.  With automount the filesystem doesn't mount at boot time but does mount the first time something tries to use it which should be long after boot.

Automount also means the filesystem gets unmounted automatically when not in use and remounted when used later.   One nice side to this is that if the exporting server goes down and it isn't currently NFS mounted on your server it doesn't cause problems like hard NFS mounts do.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Wolf Halton
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Fstab fails


In my case, the system is coming up but just without the nfs directory  mounted.

On Aug 4, 2011 9:03 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com<mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:
> Good idea.
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:42 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; transam at verysecurelinux.com<mailto:transam at verysecurelinux.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fstab fails
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> Have you considered the automounter? By waiting until the first attempt to read a file before mounting the share, you might avoid your startup issue, and you would get remounts after a lost connection for free if there is a network blip.
> On Aug 3, 2011 6:47 PM, "Bob Toxen" <transam at verysecurelinux.com<mailto:transam at verysecurelinux.com><mailto:transam at verysecurelinux.com<mailto:transam at verysecurelinux.com>>> wrote:
>> This still will hang in startup (though you'll probably be in
>> multiuser).
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>> Specify timeouts in case NFS cannot start, e.g., the server is down.
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>> Bob Toxen
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>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Andrew Wade wrote:
>>> With NFS, I set fstab
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>>> server:/ifs/fs02 /ifs/fs02 nfs bg,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
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>>> *note the noauto, this tells it to not automount. If it tries to automount
>>> and is unable, your server will stall in startup. So you put this entry in
>>> /etc/rc.local:
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>>> mount /ifs/fs02
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>>> Also check to make sure that nfs and portmap services are started upon boot
>>> time.
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>>> That way, the server starts up and then mounts the nfs under rc.local (where
>>> if the nfs share hangs, it would not affect the normal system startup).
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>>> Andrew
>>> RHCE
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>>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, planas <jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:jslozier at gmail.com><mailto:jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>>> > Wolf
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>>> > Could configuration be faulty, I asked about setting an internal ntfs drive
>>> > awhile ago and I got this link from Ubuntu:
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>>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
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>>> > It has links to more network configuration.
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>>> > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:27 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
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>>> > Can you think of any reason why fstab would not be read on reboot. Ubuntu
>>> > lucid have an nfs share that was not mounted automagically when I rebooted
>>> > the client machine. Broke a bunch of stuff.
>>> > Wolf
>>> > PS mount -a picked up and mounted the nfs directory.
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