Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 12575
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2004/3/8-9 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:12575 Activity:nil
3/8     solaris NFS question.  I have two servers A and B.  Both of them
        mount each other's disks.  I disabled nisplus and modified the
        vfstab.  It works fine.  But if the machines are rebooted, it'll hang
        waiting for each other to come up.  How do I configure NFS to time
        out and not keep retrying?  I can't even get a login screen if
        machine B is down when I reboot A.  Thanks.
        \_ Don't do this. Say no mount at boot for machine A. After you boot
           machine A boot machine B. Then manually mount on machine A. You can
           obviously write a init script and stick it with the appropriate
           runlevel that check for machine B before it mounts.
        \_ Soft mount, but this seems like a rather kooky setup.
        \_ I've had to do stupid shit like that.  What I did was write a
           startup script that only tried to mount if the remote machine was
           already proven up (pick your favorite network test).  If not then
           it waits 5 seconds and tries again.  Put this on both hosts.
        \_ you could automount. it would avoid your problem also.
           \_ automount is incredibly buggy and has other problems.
              \- automount hasnt been a problem for me in solaris8 era.
                 dont use nis+ tho. --psb
                 \_ A whole lot of people are still on 2.7 or earlier.  But
                    unfortunately op didn't tell us what version.
        \_ Either use automounter or use the background mount option
           \_ bg is going to fail out and never mount but will at least allow
              the machine to boot.
        \_ thank you all for your help.  The servers are running solaris 2.5.1
           and it's a very small company (10+ people).  So doing stuff like
           this is acceptable.
           \_ ack!  do *not* use automount on an old solaris like that.  kludge
              it with well tested scripts and forget about it.
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