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Re: [LUG] Merry Christmas All.. automount problem with kernel 4.13 on Mint 18.3

 


On 29/12/17 16:18, Julian Hall wrote:
> On 29/12/17 14:37, Peter Walker wrote:
>>
>> On 29/12/17 13:36, Julian Hall wrote:
>>
>>> Yes it is, but you'll be pleased to know that since the last outing with the NFS 
>>> shares I have pared down the options so now all I have in the fstab is:
>>>
>>> # automount CASSIOPEIA on NAS
>>> 192.168.1.3:/volume1/CASSIOPEIA /media/julian/CASSIOPEIA nfs
>>> # automount DIANA on NAS
>>> 192.168.1.3:/volume1/DIANA /media/julian/DIANA nfs
>>> # automount PERSEPHONE on NAS
>>> 192.168.1.3:/volume1/PERSEPHONE /media/julian/PERSEPHONE nfs
>>>
>>> Very little option for any screwups, I would hope.
>> I'm jumping into this halfway through but won't having this in the fstab cause 
>> the NAS to be mounted at boot rather than automounted on demand?
>> I have seen lots of race conditions on NFS and the network in various Linuxes of 
>> the past few years. Has needed lots of tweaks to systemd startup to make sure the 
>> network was there before the FS tried to mount.
>> Proper automount should be far more resilient.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
> Mount at boot was the behaviour prior to kernel 4.13 and /is/ the desired 
> behaviour.

No worries. I was just confused by the automount terminology and thought you were 
aiming at something like this 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFS#Mount_using_.2Fetc.2Ffstab_with_systemd

Pete


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