Re: NFSv4.2: One share not automounting

From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:33:52 UTC
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 8:41 AM Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:

> /vault/backup is just a directory local on the client.
>
And /vault/backup/TBH is just a subdirectory of that file system?

I vaguely recall a PR that looked like this, where there were
nullfs mounts and I twiddled things so that "late" could be used,
but that might only be for FreeBSD 14/current. I can't recall if
the changes were MFC'd. You did not mention what version of
FreeBSD you were using.

rick


> Late causes other issues with both mounts and the rest of the boot
> sequence.
>
> On 11/23/2022 8:59 am, Rick Macklem wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 10:25 PM Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
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> I have the following 2 entries in /etc/fstab:
> #########
> freenas.lerctr.org:/mnt/data/TBH    /vault/backup/TBH    nfs
> rw,nfsv4,minorversion=2,nconnect=8 0 0
> freenas.lerctr.org:/mnt/data/BACULA /vault/backup/BACULA nfs
> rw,nfsv4,minorversion=2,nconnect=8 0 0
>
> the top one (ending in /TBH) doesn't mount at boot, but if I do a manual
> mount, it's fine.
>
> Is /vault/backup a mount point on the client?
> (You didn't show the rest of your /etc/fstab.)
> If so, it might be a timing thing w.r.t. when /vault/backup
> gets mounted.
>
> You could try the "late" mount option, to see if that helps.
>
> Other than that, I cannot think why the first one would not work.
>
> rick
> ps: Normally NFSv4 mounts a tree of file systems on the server and,
>     as such, a single mount to a server is used, but doing multiple
>     mounts should work.
>
>
> How can I get data to diagnose this issue?
>
> This has been happening for a while.  FreeBSD 14-CURRENT as of Tue Nov
> 22 23:59:16 CST 2022
>
> ❯ uname -a
> FreeBSD borg.lerctr.org 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #29
> ler/freebsd-main-changes-n259398-496d4d928269: Tue Nov 22 23:59:16 CST
> 2022
> root@borg.lerctr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/LER-MINIMAL amd64
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