On 2013-09-18, john slee <indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote: > On 17 September 2013 20:37, Jes <jjje...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> but if you want you can mount them in /etc/fstab. Simply read the >> documentation about permissions and syntax. It's very easy. >> > For NFS the best way is mount them in /etc/fstab too. >> > > /Why/ is it the best way, though? > > Unlike automounters, static fstab entries don't address the problem > of network filesystems being unreachable during boot. They will > eventually time out and fail, requiring manual intervention. Fine if > you have only a small group of systems... Failures may also rather > substantially lengthen the boot process.
See mount_nfs' -b option. > Perhaps there are nasty side-effects of using automounters, but > I've never encountered any. If there are I'd love to hear about them! One problem is that amd uses NFSv2 which is restricted in file size.
