On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:13 +0000, Richard Allen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:24:55PM +0100, dragoran wrote: > > > >nfs mounted dirs ... > > > > > > > > but there should be an option to let it be done in the background .... > > > > NFS mounts have the "bg" option. > > bg If the first NFS mount attempt times out, retry the > mount in the background. After a mount operation is > backgrounded, all subsequent mounts on the same NFS > server will be backgrounded immediately, without first > attempting the mount. A missing mount point is treated > as a timeout, to allow for nested NFS mounts. This would work in the case where you the gdm prompt just sits there for 5 minutes until all the timeouts fire and the dirs mount. But doesn't really handle the case of a rapid login. What you really want is backgrounded: - When ethernet negotiation completes, immediately start getting a dhcp lease - When dhcp lease completes, immediately try to mount all mount points And when the user goes to log in, and we actually *need* the NFS mount, block until it completes. A lot of that is already there for the case of dynamic network connections later. Regards, Owen
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