I've be searching and searching for the 'proper' way to mount an NFS export via the /etc/fstab file without resorting to adding an extra command to the boot sequence.

After finding a message on the web, I issued the following as root



and rebooted....

The NFS filesystem now mounts every time! No more "mount -a"!!!

I dunno man. On my frontend system I simply added the following to my /etc/fstab and it just worked:


I am running both the nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common running. Maybe I don't understand your specific problem.

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I had exactly the same mount line in /etc/fstab, but it would not mount at boot time. The NFS server and common were already set since I'm exporting some directories, too.

For some reason my system had the /var/run/network/mountnfs directory created, and after I deleted it, the fstab settings work fine at boot time. This may have been a leftover from an older version upgrade. I'm not sure either.

I figured that I'd post it, just in case someone else has the same issue.

There are a couple of other options you should use. I think it's "rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr" : adding these should improve transfer speed significantly. You can probably get rid of "defaults" since these aren't the defaults.

Regards

Mike

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