On Saturday May 16 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 16 May 2009 15:21:28 Randall R Schulz wrote:
1) Adding the "bg" option to the fstab entry did not fix the problem. 2) Running /etc/init.d/nfs start manually after boot was complete resulted in the export being mounted.
Are you doing this at home, or is this in an enterprise setting?
The reason I ask is that some higher end switches take quite some time to fully register that a port is in use, to allow traffic through. On such switches, it's usually necessary to either reconfigure the switch to not perform things like routing protocol management stuff, or - if the enterprise type protocols are actually used - to add a sleep statement to the nfs startup script
If it's in a home setting with a low end switch or hub, then I'm not sure why it's happening
Interesting. It's SOHO (we deserve our own classification, don't we?). The switch is a DLink DGS-2208 eight-port, 10/100/1000 Mbps switch and is definitely a consumer design. It claims to be an adaptive, low-power design that scales some aspecdts of its functions to match demand (analogously to how CPU frequency scaling works, I guess). Perhaps that has something to do with it? From [1]: "Power Savings by Number of Connected Ports and Link Status "Computers do not require Internet access all the time; neither do switches utilize all ports at all times. When a computer or network equipment is shut down, switches often remain on and continue to consume considerable amounts of power. With D-Link Green Technology, D-Link switches can automatically detect link status and reduce power usage of ports that are idle. Computers or any connecting parties set to standby mode (not power off), however, will not provide significant power savings." I glanced at some reviews (only a few so far) on Amazon.com [2] and NewEgg.com [3], but the only thing that jumps out is that it throttles all the ports to the speed of the slowest attached device. As with one reviewer, I wish I'd known that when I bought it... [1] http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=495 [2] http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DGS-2208-8-Port-Desktop-Switch/dp/B000FITKK8 [3] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127082
Anders
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