On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:40:47 -0400 (EDT) > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > bg > > > > If the first NFS mount attempt times out > > The problem is the "if the first attempt times out" part. If the > machine is down, it is gonna timeout, and each filesystem from that > machine is gonna take the same amount of time to timeout. I want the > option that says "just background the dadgum thing to start with!" good point. i might start with "-F" mount option: "Fork off a new incarnation of mount for each device. This will do the mounts on different devices or different NFS servers in parallel. This has the advantage that it is faster; also NFS timeouts go in parallel. A disadvantage is that the mounts are done in undefined order. Thus, you cannot use this option if you want to mount both /usr and /usr/spool." at least that will speed things up. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines