NFS mounting

Benjamin Keating motionsiren at gmail.com
Tue May 3 15:59:26 PDT 2005


So putting NFs mounts in the background, via fstab would look like this(?):

nfs.myserver.com:/usr/ports   /usr/ports   nfs   rw,-b   0   0

(is the -b in the right place? I don't have a test environment to
check this setting)

Thanks!
- bpk

On 4/29/05, Xian <ian at codepad.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> /Xian
> 
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