Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 4/6/2010 1:50 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 4/6/2010 1:36 PM, Dan Naumov wrote:
>>> I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE   /mountpoint    smbfs   rw          0       0
>>>
>>> The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up
>>> before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then
>>> hangs permanently because it cannot get the SMB share points mounted.
>>> This recently happened after a catastrophic power outage that cooked
>>> the share info on "WINSERVER". Even after it came up, it was no longer
>>> serving the proper shares and the FBSD machine could never find the
>>> SMB shares and thus hung permanently.
>>>
>>> The SMB mounts are not essential for systems operations. Is there a
>>> way to tell the FBSD to try and mount SMB, but keep going and complete
>>> the boot if it cannot?
>>
>> A bit of an ugly hack, but have you considered attempting to mount the
>> share via an automatic script after the system has finished booting?
>>
>> - Sincerely,
>> Dan Naumov
> 
> Actually that is what I was doing via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> before I switched over to the /etc/fstab scheme.
> 
> I may have to fall back to the rc.d approach.  It seems odd to me that there's
> "best effort to mount" semantic option for fstab entries...

I meant to say that there is NO such semantic.

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