Re: NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate


Hi,
Reference:
> From:		John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 
> Date:		Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:03:35 -0500 
> Message-id:	<201101071103.35500.jhb@freebsd.org> 

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, January 07, 2011 10:29:22 am Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > > I've seen a regression in 8 at work where NFS mounts seem to fail on DNS on 
> > > every boot (we have a small number of mounts, < 10) whereas 7 worked fine on 
> > > every boot.  I haven't tracked it down yet, but 8 is certainly more fragile 
> > > than 7 for mounting NFS on boot.
> > 
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf has	nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4"
> > 
> > Once I had a server with example	 /etc/rc.conf -n 10 
> > & had problems when I added partions beyond eg 10 ...
> > so I suggest check rc.conf against fstab & /etc/exports
> 
> That should not matter for establishing mounts.  Also, keep in mind that 7
> worked fine with the same settings.  In fact, I'm just booting an 8 kernel
> on the same 7 userland currently and it's only the 8 kernel that has the
> problem (a pure 8 system also has the same symptoms, so it's not a problem
> due to mixing a 7 world with 8 kernel).
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin


OK, I have no /etc/fstab direct invoked NFS mounts,
	Just AMD & NFS invoked (on mixed net of Releases: 8,7,6,4
	I guess my DNS has longer to start (or my AMD+NFS falls back
	to other hosts already running DNS)
Good luck tracing it.

Cheers,
Julian
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