On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:03:26AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I currently have several NFS mounts to share my media between my > PVR, my workstation, and my neighbour's workstation downstairs. > > The problem is, a lot of the time the mounts are not loaded on boot > for some reason or another (eg; in the case of a power outage, all computers > come back up at the same time, but they don't all take the same amount of > time to boot... so one will try to mount the NFS shares before the other is > serving them, etc.) > > Also, sometimes after one system reboots, the other system starts > complaining about "stale NFS filehandle"s and does not re-mount the > partition. > > What I really want, is to be able to define shares in /etc/fstab, > and have the system keep trying to re-mount them if they ever become > unavailable... Is there any way to improve the reliability/availability of > NFS mounts? Or is there something else I should be using? maybe autofs would help? they won't mount until you try to use them A
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