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

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

On Fri, October 6, 2006 12:49, Bruce Smith wrote:
>>> 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/
>
> OK, I added a /etc/init.d/nfs script for NFS mounts in /etc/fstab.
> The script also does a mkdir on all the directories before the mount,
> just in case they don't exist.
>
> I'm not sure what you wanted me to change in the insserv.conf file.
>
>
> Are there any other scripts that should "require" the nfs script first?

As long as the init script is started in the right order, nothing. ;-)

>> If you're going to make it easier to do NFS mounts, you should
>> also consider making it easier to create mount points in a logical place.
>>
>>
>> Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't appear that you can
>> create new directories under /mnt since the filesystem is read only.
>> Perhaps /mnt should be made a link to /shm/mnt,
>> like /etc and /var, to allow new directories to be created under /mnt.
>
> That is probably a good idea, but what is that going to break?
> Do any of the standard scripts make use of /mnt now?
> (save-config? -- appears NOT to use /mnt, but what else?)
>
>
> BTW, I ran a little test mounting a directory that is really a symlink
> to another directory, and it seems to work fine.
>
> - BS
>
>
>
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