Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:14:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init Message-ID: <20070302171414.GA95861@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <015601c75ce9$d0263a10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <015601c75ce9$d0263a10$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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In the last episode (Mar 02), Steven Hartland said: > Another observation from my recent dealings with using > NFS based /usr is that the remote critical mounts via > nfs dont always give the network enough time to > initialise before running. The first error displayed > is: > Mounting NFS file systems:mount_nfs: nfs1: hostname nor servname provided, > or not known > > This is particularly noticeable when the machine is > connected to Cisco equipment as they take quite a > while link to the connected host after initialisation. That can usually be fixed by making sure you have portfast enabled on the Cisco for any non-switch ports, btw. Takes the port setup time down from 30 seconds to under 5. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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