Re: NFS mount points on Squeeze

[Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran@gmail.com>]

Mark Panen <mark.panen@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I do not always have all my machines powered on and when i power up my 
>main Squeeze machine, the boot sequence waits forever to mount the NFS 
>mount points because machine 2 is powered down for example.
>
>I put "defaults" in my /etc/fstab in the NFS line.
>
>Is there a better entry to use?
>

Well, I don't have a solution to your problem, but have you considered autofs? That will defer the mount attempt to the point when an attempt is made to actually access the directory. 

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