Re: OpenVPN & NFS problems
Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> I just switched to Debian 3.1 (Sarge) and I'm using NFS over an OpenVPN
> connection. There seem to be some problems with this though.
> When booting, the mounting of NFS drives seems to occur before the
> OpenVPN connection is made. This causes the system to hang during
> boot-up. Fail-safe mode also hangs at the same problem.
> I was able to boot again after editing my fstab from an old Slackware
> installation.
> I see three issues here:
> 1. An unavaillable NFS share shouldn't cause the system to hang.
> 2. OpenVPN should always be started before the system tries to mount NFS
> shares.
> 3. Although some people might need NFS in fail-safe mode, it might not
> be a good idea to always assume people want NFS in safe mode.
>
> Should (some of) these be reported as bugs in the Debian bugsystem?
> Does anyone have a similar issue and have a good solution for this,
> since I now need to manually mount my NFS shares after boot-up.
I think that the OpenVPN package should have similar debconf
configuration to Openswan, which has a specific question about when it
should start up in relations to NFS. Please file a bug.
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