Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:54:59 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot Message-ID: <4BBB8383.40601@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <4BBB826B.5020500@tundraware.com> References: <r2rcf9b1ee01004061136j1a80daaei298be9f85ee29980@mail.gmail.com> <4BBB826B.5020500@tundraware.com>
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On 4/6/2010 1:50 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 4/6/2010 1:36 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like >>> this: >>> >>> //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 >>> >>> The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up >>> before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then >>> hangs permanently because it cannot get the SMB share points mounted. >>> This recently happened after a catastrophic power outage that cooked >>> the share info on "WINSERVER". Even after it came up, it was no longer >>> serving the proper shares and the FBSD machine could never find the >>> SMB shares and thus hung permanently. >>> >>> The SMB mounts are not essential for systems operations. Is there a >>> way to tell the FBSD to try and mount SMB, but keep going and complete >>> the boot if it cannot? >> >> A bit of an ugly hack, but have you considered attempting to mount the >> share via an automatic script after the system has finished booting? >> >> - Sincerely, >> Dan Naumov > > Actually that is what I was doing via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > before I switched over to the /etc/fstab scheme. > > I may have to fall back to the rc.d approach. It seems odd to me that there's > "best effort to mount" semantic option for fstab entries... I meant to say that there is NO such semantic. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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