conf/122036: Mounting at boot with ZFS causes a halt in booting

[Nicolas Blais]

The following reply was made to PR conf/122036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Nicolas Blais" <nicblais at clkroot.net>
To: "Norikatsu Shigemura" <nork at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/122036: Mounting at boot with ZFS causes a halt in booting
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:34:18 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

 > Hi Nicolas.
 >
 > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:59:39 GMT
 > Nicolas  Blais <nicblais at clkroot.net> wrote:
 >> During boot, it seems that the OS is trying to mount the entry in my
 >> fstab, but /etc/rc.d/zfs hasn't loaded or isn't finished yet and
 >> therefore causes the boot to stop.
 >> Here's the entry in /etc/fstab that causes the boot to halt:
 >> /tank/public/ftp       /home/sam/ftp   nullfs  rw              0       0
 >
 > 	Maybe, you should set 'late' to mount potion like following.
 >
 >> /tank/public/ftp       /home/sam/ftp   nullfs  rw,late         0       0
 >
 
 That worked, thanks!
 "man fstab" doesn't say anything about that option, which is important for
 people using ZFS...
 
 Thanks again,
 Nicolas