NFS mount is stalling during boot

[Keith]

On 9/19/21 4:30 PM, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to figure out a way to fix this and not quite finding a
> solution that works.
>
> Mounting an NFS drive is stalling the boot when the drive is
> unreachable.  I want my linux host to still boot even if the drive is
> not reachable.  distro is Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
>
> here is the fstab entry
>
> --- entry ---
> <ip>:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/Music     /media/Music  nfs
> auto,noatime,nolock,bg,soft,nfsvers=3,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0
> --- entry ---
>
> during the boot process the message claims "(2 of 4) A start job is
> running for /media/Music" (27s / no limit)"
>
> Cheers
>

Is actimeo being set to a 30 minute timeout (1800sec/60sec per minute =
30 minutes) a normal setting that people use? I don't ever use NFS, so
my understanding of how it all works is very limited. That seems a very
long time, and well over the values of the options that would be default
if actimeo were not set according to NFS (5).

--
Keith