On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 20:39 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
I have two filesystems defined in /etc/fstab that are mounted over NFS (let call them /foo and /bar). During boot, the first mount (/foo) fails, and the second (/bar) is mounted OK. After the machine is up and running, if I log in as root and type mount /foo, it mounts OK.
Have you defined the NFS mounts to mount automatically. If so, don't make sure the last 2 fields are '0 0' and enable the netfs service
/sbin/chkconfig netfs on
Greg, thanks for your answer. However, as far as configuration on NFS client (my PC), everything is in good order. Configuration on server is also good (both file systems exported in exactly the same way). Netfs service is enabled, and basically my fstab looks like this:
1.2.3.4:/foo /foo nfs auto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 1.2.3.4:/bar /bar nfs auto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
(I've added "auto", after reading your reply, but that should be on by default anyhow). I've also attempted with "defaults" in the options field, same results. 1.2.3.4 is SunOS 5.x box.
During the boot, I'm getting this error message on the console:
mount: mount to NFS server '1.2.3.4' failed: server is down. netfs: Mounting NFS filesystems: failed
When I log in and do "df" or "mount", I can see that /foo failed to mount, and that /bar is mounted. As I said, if I reverse order of lines in fstab, than /bar fails, and /foo is mounted. When I do "mount /foo", it gets mounted, and I can use it normally. It is just this very first attempt of NFS mount that netfs fails to mount on boot, and after that netfs mounts the rest of NFS file systems normally.
I've attempted unmounting /foo and /bar, and than rerunning "netfs start", and it mounts both file systems. So I would guess the problem isn't with netfs script itself, but somewhere much deeper (kernel?). Or maybe some timing issue?
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
