Re: Re: NFS server not responding prevents boot

2006-05-20 Thread Kip Macy
Um that is what intr is for - and it won't cause silent data loss. -Kip On 5/19/06, Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steven Hartland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway the big question is how can I change all our NFS mounts so that failed mounts dont prevent the machines booting to

Re: Re: NFS server not responding prevents boot

2006-05-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
From: Steven Hartland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway the big question is how can I change all our NFS mounts so that failed mounts dont prevent the machines booting to the point where they can be fixed remotely i.e. have started sshd. Doh!! spent ages googling for the answer then found it in 2mins

Re: Re: NFS server not responding prevents boot

2006-05-19 Thread Steven Hartland
Sergey Babkin wrote: I usually use soft,bg. The soft option makes the operations on this filesystem fail if the server is not available instead of hanging (unkillable!) forever and waiting for the server to come up. Good tip thanks! Steve

Re: NFS server not responding prevents boot

2006-05-19 Thread Chuck Lever
Sergey Babkin wrote: From: Steven Hartland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway the big question is how can I change all our NFS mounts so that failed mounts dont prevent the machines booting to the point where they can be fixed remotely i.e. have started sshd. Doh!! spent ages googling for the answer

Re: NFS server not responding prevents boot

2006-05-18 Thread Steven Hartland
Steven Hartland wrote: Anyway the big question is how can I change all our NFS mounts so that failed mounts dont prevent the machines booting to the point where they can be fixed remotely i.e. have started sshd. Doh!! spent ages googling for the answer then found it in 2mins of looking through

Re: NFS server not responding prevents boot

2006-05-18 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Hartland [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I was doing some kernel patches the other day and rebooted a FreeBSD 5.4 machine to pick them up, unfortunately I didn't notice someone had put in a bad nfs mount in /etc/fstab i.e. to a machine that no longer existed. This