Hi Wayne, Thanks, Im' glad to see that it is in the pipe to be fixed. I also thought of putting a sleep in the start script but I was thinking of the netfs script.
Thanks for the reply. Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Ralph. > > There is a outstanding bugzilla, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=260541, for this issue. What > is happening is the iscsi will fail to log into the target in time for > netfs() to mount the LUNs. One solution I've used to help get around it > is to add a sleep() in the iscsi init script after the loading of the > iscsi_tcp module. This has to be tuned to the delays in your network and > is a rather hookey way to do things. > > Regards, > Wayne. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Crongeyer > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [rhelv5-list] Mounting an iscsi volume at boot. > > Hi all, > The problem: > I'm having a problem getting an iscsi volume to be mounted on boot. > > What does work: > I can mount the volume/disk "/etc/sda1" after booting with no problem. > > Discoverys: > I have found that using the fstab option "defaults,_netdev" does what it > > says it does and only try's to mount the drive after networking is up. > However the drive is not available when the "netfs" script is run > via "/etc/rcX.d/S25netfs" so it cannot mount the drive. If I move netfs > to > be launched later say "/etc/rcX.d/S60netfs" the drive is mounted. > > Is there a fix for this? > > Thanks > > Ralph > > One more thing, I will be using this SAN drive for holding some VM's > (using > Vmware) and Vmware installs the start script as "S19vmware" so the drive > > will never be mounted before vmware starts. > Obviously this is a problem. > > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
