https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707898
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707898#c7
--- Comment #7 from Neil Brown 2011-10-10 22:33:11 UTC ---
Hi Scott,
I realise that the bug description said "non-nfs v4". I suspect that just
means that you explicitly didn't say that you wanted nfsv4.
However when mount.nfs attempts to mount something it will still try NFSv4
first unless it has been explicitly told to try some other version. The fact
that you didn't tick the "NFSv4 share" box doesn't mean that NFSv4 will not be
attempted at mount time. (I'm don't know what it does mean, but I'm fairly
sure it isn't that).
So you still the get longer timeout that the current NFSv4 code imposes unless
/etc/fstab explicitly contains "vers=3" or similar.
NFS and DHCP are totally different code bases with different histories and
different priorities. You might think it should work some particular way, and
I have no desire to argue about that. However the way that it *does* works is:
1/ If you want a filesystem mounted at boot time, you list it in /etc/fstab,
and possibly have to wait a while if the server isn't responding.
2/ if you want a filesystem mounted as soon as possible after boot time, you
put it in /etc/fstab and add the 'bg' mount option.
3/ If you want a filesystem mounted at the time when you actually use it (in
most cases the sensible approach) you configure an auto-mounter.
Who you communicate these desires to yast is not something I can help with -
probably Martin can.
If the "choose" button does not work for you, I suggest you submit a bug
report. It works for me. It works by broadcasting a 'ping' to any rpc.mountd
program on any host on the same subnet.
I would get, based on the fact that this doesn't work for you, and the fact
that your are getting long timeouts, that your server and your client are on
different subnets. It is not possible to broadcast to other subnets, so not
possibly to discover servers on different subnets.
If you could report the output of "ifconfig" on the main network interface of
each of your client and your server, I could see if this is the case.
NeilBrown
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