[ale] Fstab fails

Thu Aug 4 14:30:34 EDT 2011

I would look at putting the config files in a subversion or git repo and
pushing out with repo sync or rsync or using puppet or cfengine to handle
this.
On Aug 4, 2011 1:49 PM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, ok.. Thanks,
> I have not used automount before. Would you feel safe mounting a critical
> directory with it - not necessarily a remote /home directory?
> The nfs share I have up is holding the config files for a web app. This
was
> our solution to having to update the config files on several servers in
the
> event that they needed to be edited. Without it, my test box has a copy of
> the source on it, but it is plain that this failsafe didn't work all that
> well.
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
wrote:
>
>> 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> wrote:
>> > Good idea.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> Avery Ceo
>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:42 PM
>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; transam at verysecurelinux.com
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] Fstab fails
>> >
>> >
>> > 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>> wrote:
>> >> This still will hang in startup (though you'll probably be in
>> >> multiuser).
>> >>
>> >> Specify timeouts in case NFS cannot start, e.g., the server is down.
>> >>
>> >> Bob Toxen
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Andrew Wade wrote:
>> >>> With NFS, I set fstab
>> >>>
>> >>> server:/ifs/fs02 /ifs/fs02 nfs bg,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
>> >>>
>> >>> *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:
>> >>>
>> >>> mount /ifs/fs02
>> >>>
>> >>> Also check to make sure that nfs and portmap services are started
upon
>> boot
>> >>> time.
>> >>>
>> >>> 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).
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Andrew
>> >>> RHCE
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, planas <jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:
>> jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > **
>> >>> > Wolf
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Could configuration be faulty, I asked about setting an internal
ntfs
>> drive
>> >>> > awhile ago and I got this link from Ubuntu:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
>> >>> >
>> >>> > It has links to more network configuration.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:27 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 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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