[UFO Chicago] network not ready when fstab is processed

[Brian Sobolak]

On Tue, June 15, 2010 6:38 pm, Politik Durden wrote:
> --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: network not ready when fstab is processed
>> To: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
>> Cc: "Depaul Linux" <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
>> Date: Monday, June 14, 2010, 3:20 PM
>>  > Message: 4
>> > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:59:25 -0700 (PDT)
>> > From: "Matthew T. Gibbs" <mtgibbs at yahoo.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] [DLC]allowable characters
>> for
>> > group names
>> >     on    Xubuntu
>> > To: UFO Mail list <ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us>
>> > Message-ID: <203383.23440.qm at web112405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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>> >
>> > Are you using the _netdev option in fstab?  It may
>> be
>> > trying to mount the shares before the network is
>> available.
>> >
>> > Matt
>>
>> Thanks Matt,
>>
>> Since the mounting worked manually from the command line, I
>> kinda figured that something (my guess was a protocol)
>> wasn't ready/loaded when fstab is being processed at start
>> up.
>>
>> I tried using the _netdev option in fstab but the drives
>> still won't mount at boot up. I am using cifs and this link
>>
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
>>
>> says _netdev is only available with NFS. NFS would require
>> installing/running and NFS server on the XP side so I'm
>> trying to stick with CIFS. Is there any other way to delay
>> the mounting of the network shares until after the network
>> comes up ? This would be the ideal solution.
>>
>> Some people have fixed this issue by running a cron job
>> that checks to see if the share is mounted, and if not, run
>> a script to mount it. This could potentially require a user
>> to wait for the cron job to run in order to access the
>> share, or mount it manually if they don't want to wait till
>> the job runs. Plus I'd have to somehow mentally connect the
>> cron job with the network share. Too cumbersome.
>>
>> Others have made a script that runs "sudo mount -a" after
>> everything in the OS is loaded. Not exactly elegant, and it
>> kinda defeats the purpose of putting the commands in fstab.
>>
>>
>> What if instead of the script running "sudo mount -a",
>> which remounts everything again, the script contains only
>> commands to mount the network shares ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Someone on linuxquestions.org suggested using netfs to mount the shares at
> startup. Couldn't find much info on netfs. Wikipedia doesn't even have an
> entry for it. One web site described netfs as a peer to peer system.
> Doesn't sound like what I'm looking for. Any thoughts ?
>

I usually prefer what works.  I'd figure that the cron job would work
within 5-10 minutes of booting up, which you probably shouldn't be doing
that often anyway.  For most users, sure, there might be a gap but it's
not likely.

brian


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