[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

[Daniel Kjar]

I would never use a remote etc.  Lose the network and the box becomes 
unusable.  Not good.  That automounter drives me batty.  I hate the 
whole export/home thing and remove the auto_home crap and reboot as soon 
as I set up a new server.


On 08/ 6/12 09:21 AM, James Carlson wrote:
> Daniel Kjar wrote:
>> Thanks for asking about this. I had just assumed the same.  Machines I
>> updated all the way from opensolaris still mounted nfs at boot but my
>> clean 151a5s did not.  Very annoying when apache fails cause it didn't
>> mount htdocs from the file server.
> OK.  It's possible that I'm just wrong about this.  The only case where
> I've seen NFS entries in /etc/vfstab was with mount-at-boot set to "no."
>   (And since the introduction of ZFS, I don't really put much in vfstab
> anymore.)
>
> In any event, I think automount provides an easier-to-manage solution.
> And unlike some other operating systems, it actually works reliably on
> OpenIndiana.
>
> But regardless of mounting mechanism, I don't think I'd consider using
> NFS for anything under /etc.  It sort of defeats the point of that
> directory to have anything remote there.  Even if I'm sharing
> configuration between machines, I set up rsync to keep them up-to-date,
> so that a failure (or unreachability) of the NFS server doesn't cause
> otherwise-independent machines to fail.
>

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Dr. Daniel Kjar
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