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[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Monday August 2 2010, Anton Aylward wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz said the following on 08/02/2010 09:48 AM:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > On an irregular basis, I find that my 11.3 system fails to mount a
> > > NFS volume from another system. When this happens I have to
> > > manually run "/etc/init.d/nfs start". Furthermore, sometimes this
> > > also fails and I have to switch to run-level 2 and back to 5 (or 3,
> > > I suppose).
> > >
> > > All this (my symptoms and those reported by others here) make me
> > > wonder if there really is a poor choice of init script
> > > dependencies?
> > Probably.
> >
> > I know of two ways to do NFS.
> >
> > One is to put it in the /etc/fstab
> > So it may be that you get the NFS mount demand before /usr/lib ... ?
>
> I'm using this, /etc/fstab. Furthermore, I "configured" it by the simple 
> expedience of copying the pertinent line from my 11.1 fstab to my 11.3 
> fstab. Perhaps that side-stepped some other required configuration or 
> dependency adjustment?

I recently became aware of the _netdev mount option, which I for one
didn't use to have in my fstab. Perhaps it's worth adding it, if you
don't already have it.

Cheers, Dave
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