https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331255 Summary: mounting of _netdev devices not available Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: SLES 10 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: siegfried.olschner@novell.com ReportedBy: brian@clusterfs.com QAContact: siegfried.olschner@novell.com Found By: Third Party Developer/Partner In other Linux distributions, and I believe in prior SUSE distributions, there is an initscript that is responsible for mounting filesystems that depend on network connectivity. The fallback standard example of this is of course NFS. SUSE 10 seems to support mounting NFS through the (/etc/init.d/)"nfs" initscript in which it specifically mounts NFS filesystems (only). However that leaves other network dependent filesystems such as ours, Lustre, out in the cold. If we use an fstab entry for a Lustre filesystem with an option of "_netdev" specified, there seems to be nothing in the boot process to actually mount this. Simply giving Lustre filesystems the "_netdev" mount option in /etc/fstab works in a number of other Linux distributions, just not SLES. Why have you removed this _netdev mounting option from the initscripts? How do you propose that network filesystems are mounted given this limitation? Is each network filesystem vendor supposed to create an initscript for use on SUSE (only -- as other distros don't need this support)? Your input is greatly appreciated. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.