Just discovered this "gem" trying to mount a Ceph RBD device on boot. To add insult to injury, this is on a normally headless server, which is in a difficult spot to get a keyboard and monitor to.
A server that requires me to be physically present to press a S key (and also as a side-effect, *doesn't* mount volumes that it needs) is completely useless to me. I need this server to boot automatically, without intervention. If it's going to need hand-holding, save yourselves the effort and make the next release of Ubuntu symlink /sbin/init to /bin/bash and we'll do it ourselves! Okay… rant over, I needed to get that out of my system. The system in question is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD64, installed yesterday via PXE. According to /etc/lsb-release, it's release 12.04.4. I have in my /etc/fstab: /dev/rbd/pool-name/name-of-rbd /local/mountpoint xfs defaults,_netdev 0 0 rbdmap service is configured and set to start at boot. Indeed, when the machine does boot up, `mount -a` successfully mounts the RBD. However, I need to do this *before* starting services. Doing so after logging in is shutting the stable doors long after the horse has bolted. I need it to do this the moment networking is up. I see I'm not the only one a bit miffed by this situation: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131380 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2135891 The former of those threads mentions a kludge. An ugly kludge at that. Has someone got any ideas as to where to look it fix this problem? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384347 Title: _netdev not working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/384347/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
