NFS mounting

Xian ian at codepad.net
Tue May 3 05:37:54 PDT 2005


On Friday 29 April 2005 12:52, Vyacheslav Druzhinin wrote:
> Hello freebsd-questions,
>
>   I've added the nfs mounting point on my workstation to the /etc/fstab
> like this: nfs.myserver.com:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs 0 0
>
>   When nfs.myserver.com is reachable everything is ok. But if
>   nfs.myserver.com is down my workstation can't startup and hangs on
>   at boot screen until nfs.myserver.com become up.
>
>   Is it possible to skeep the mounting of nfs volume when nfs server
>   is not reachable?
>
>
> With best regards,                  [MCP, MCSD]
> Vyacheslav                          mailto:dvg_lab at mail.ru
> Origin: <--=<< DVG_Lab >>=-->
>

The bg option would background the mount and it would try every minute till it 
works. man mount_nfs explains all.

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/Xian

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