Hi!,
Quote:> I am building a cluster thAt is sharing information through NFS.
> Everything works great, but I need to mount the NFS in the bootup
> and the server is likely booting At the same time. Right now I
> 'sleep 10' right before I mount the NFS directories, but when the
> server has to fsck that doesn't work.
> Anyone else run into a similar situation? What did you do?
Won't the clients wait until the server is mounted before they proceed. I
thought NFS blocked until it gets the connection or have you disabled or
altered the timeouts so that the system will continue to boot when no reply is
heard in x number of seconds ?
See ya
Dean Thompson
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