[SPARCbook] systems hang waiting for nfs mounts

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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Carl Lewis wrote:

> I have 2 sparcbooks running Solaris 2.5.6.
>
>  Server a shares a file system.
>  Server b shares a file system.
>  Server b does an nfs mount for the shared file system from server a.
>  Server a does an nfs mount for the shared file system from server b.
>
>  This arrange is fine so long as both sparcbooks are not rebooted at the
> same time.
>  If both are rebooted at the same time they both hang waiting to mount the
> other servers shared file system.
>  There seems to be no logical timeout on waiting for the other nfs and the
> servers wait for ever!\

I suggest you change to the automounter. Then the actual mount command is
only started when the filesystem is accessed.

Hugo.

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