Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2086 mails)

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:52, Art Fore wrote:
>> My question is, is this normal for NFS? Is there a timeout setting
>> somewhere you can make to prevent this hassle in the future or would I
>> just be better off not using NFS?
> 
> You can use NFS, but entries in /etc/fstab should be set to noauto for NFS 
> shares that are not present all the time, like another desktop. 
> 
> The timeout exists, details you can see in 
>   man nfs
> but system should be able to start with or without NFS shares, unless they are 
> part of basic file system, like /home.

There's no need for noauto. Simply set the 'bg' option in /etc/fstab to
avoid having your system wait for non-essential mounts. Here's an
example of my nfs settings:

  suse1:/home  /home  nfs  rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,noatime 0 0

You can man nfs for more information and this page also looks useful:
<http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch29_:_Remote_Disk_Access_with_NFS>

Cheers, Dave
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