Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Automatic NFS mounts

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Tue, September 26, 2006 14:50, Bruce Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, September 26, 2006 09:52, Bruce Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Wouldn't it be simpler and more standard to simply start portmap
>>> before the /etc/fstab mounts?  That would allow people to put NFS
>>> mounts in /etc/fstab, as other distros do it.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed.
>> Do you have time to implement it?
>>
>
> After looking at it, that's not going to work.  mountfs runs before
> networking has started.
>
> I suppose we could hack up /etc/init.d/portmap to mount NFS volumes,
> but I'm not sure that's a good idea.
>
> Looking at my SuSE desktop, they have a separate start script for NFS
> mounts.  It looks like that's the way to go.
>
> Thoughts?

That's probably the best way and we know it'll work this way.
We could start portmap and mount.nfs right after the network, before
anything else starts.
You'll need to modify the inserv config file, I think we had that in
build/scripts/config/

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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