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nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #525154
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 525154

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 525154] Re: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:03 +0000, Joshua Baergen wrote:
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> But statd's job is triggered on such NFS mounts,

If by triggered you mean that such a mount stops and waits for statd to
be started, nope.

> so I think that's OK as
> long as mountall doesn't do it (or give up) too early, is it not?

But it does do it. Eventually the mount does succeed but it's very ugly
to race like, hoping that a retry will succeed and then there's the spat
of ugly "failure" messages during boot.

All in all, the race needs to be resolved, IMHO.