Re: [tlug] NFS versus boot order

["Arwyn Hainsworth" <arwynh@example.com>]

On 21/04/07, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> My NFS LAN is all set up and working. I have 3 machines all talking to
> each other.
>
> However, being a home environment where people boot machines as needed,
> I've noticed a small issue.
>
> If a server machine boots before a client, then everything is good. The
> client machine automatically mounts directories on the server.
>
> But if the client machine boots before the server, then it looks for
> network drives that aren't there, doesn't find them, and doesn't mount
> them. I have to manually mount (sudo mount -a) after the server is booted.
>
> Maybe this can't be helped. But is there a way to automatically mount
> the drives on the client when it needs to use the network drives?

I don't think so. I'd write a small shell script to mount/umount the
drives and cron it to run every 5 minutes or so.

Arwyn