When Does NFS Get Enabled At Boot?

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 06/10/2013 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 13.04 I can mount NFS shares from the command line no problem, but if I
>> try to do it at boot time from fstab, the system hangs and says it is
>> waiting for idmapd and statd to start.
>
> Try adding "_netdev" to the fstab options of the nfs mounts. They'll
> be attempted after the network's up; and hopefully after rpc.idmapd is
> started. (rpc.statd isn't used by/needed for nfs4.)
>
> I'm using nfs and not nfs4 on Ubuntu but AFAIK there's an upstart job
> to ensure that idmapd is started before an nfs4 mount is attempted.
> You might want to file a bug report against this job if its "start on
> ..." statement isn't starting it when it's meant to.
>


Thanks, I'll look into this.  As a matter of interest, where are
the upstart job definitions found?  Are they plain text editable?

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