Dag, I have experienced the same issues on Debian Woody.
To add to the "hmmm" factor, I have found that if *any* NIC is not connected to something, the boot will hang for a very long time.
Since connecting all the interfaces to *anything* (i.e. on some demos I have plugged all the interfaces into the same switch during boot as a work-around) seems to cure the problem, I don't think configuring the interface (i.e. DHCP client) or having the interface actually be able to talk has anything to do with the problem.
I run the kernel NFS server so I do not know if the problem also affects the user-space server. I have not noticed the problem with the 2.6 kernel but this may be due to simply not using 2.6 much yet.
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Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
I've had this problem for a while, and since it's not at all critical I haven't really investigated it, but just in case someone has an explanation:
On some server boots (perhaps 25%), the NFS exports phase (nfs-kernel-server) use a very long time (a minute or so), while the rest of the time it is just takes a second. The same can happen when restarting NFS manually. If the server doesn't have a net connection (ie it is plugged out) then it is closer to 90% of the time than 25% (but the server doesn't even use DHCP request for the interfaces during boot, they just sit there, so why that would play in is beyond me).
The boots are otherwise perfectly identical. Very strange. Does NFS decide to do check of file permissions etc. in the exported dirs? And only on some occations, not all?
Running Debian testing. I guess that would be where to ask, but since everyone on this list is running an NFS server...
// Dag Sverre
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