NFS causing slooooow boot

[Bill Davidsen]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:33:00 -0700
> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>> > There is.  Read below.
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>> As I point out in another reply, there really isn't any such
>> option. The "bg" option insists on waiting around to timeout
>> once before it is willing to background the operation.
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> There may be a way around this.
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> Comment out the nfs mount lines in fstab.
> Boot will proceed using only the local mounts.
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> Write a small script file which contains the
> command line versions of required 'mount' lines.
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> Call this script at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local with a '&' in the call 
> line
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Other thoughts: Using 'noauto' allows all of the mount info to reside in fstab 
and be used by the script, so it only needs to know the mount points, providers 
are all in fstab. Use of automount daemon comes to mind, don't bother with the 
mount unless you need it, then do it on demand. I would regard that as optimal 
if there are times when the data are not needed.

> The nfs call will run in background and will not return until nfs has 
> timed out, but it will be backgrounded throughout, and other boot 
> processes (loading X, etc) will continue.
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> You can test this with a script file containing: 'date', 'mount -a', 
> 'date', and changing your /etc/fstab to attempt to NFS mount from a 
> computer which does not exist (ie, mung the hostname of one of your 
> existing machines). You will see from the output that it will take the 
> full minute to return.
> Geoff
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