Re: Service start contingencies?

["John L. Cunningham" <djohngo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 05:11:56PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> 
> * As you're using SysVinit, everything is script, so update the nbd
> initscript to do something like "fping BoxB" in a loop. It's not
> pretty, but it will do the job.

It certainly beats my idea of prepending it with "sleep 300", which was my first thought.


> 
> * Consider NFS which seems to be much more resilient to the server
> not being there. I have a computer with an NFS root and it happily
> ticks along even if I reboot the server (albeit I/O blocks while the
> server's down).

I ruled out NFS when I set it up, but I can't remember why.  It's worth another look.

Thanks,

--
John