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Subject: Re: Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot
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On 07/04/2010, at 1:14 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine =
like=20
> this:
>=20
> //USER@WINSERVER/SHARE   /mountpoint    smbfs   rw          0       0
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?

In an NFS environment, amd(8) is used to mount shares on demand instead =
of on=20
boot. It doesn't directly support SMB, but it may be possible to to =
combine=20
them:

  http://www.jiegao.co.cc/computer-notes/unix-tips/freebsd-amd-for-samba

Rob.=