Hi! I'd like to mount an NFS4 share with the option bg as described in man 5 nfs. But all mounts are carried out in the foreground and time out after 2 minutes [and the client is blocked e.g. during boot for the entire time] instead of trying in the background for about 1 week until the server is back up. When I try to mount a share from an unreachable server I get something like # mount.nfs4 10.1.2.3:/ /mnt/ -v -o bg mount.nfs4: text-based options: 'bg,clientaddr=xxx,addr=10.1.2.3' mount.nfs4: mount(2): Input/output error mount.nfs4: mount system call failed I tracked this down to utils/mount/stropts.c, where the function nfs_is_permanent_error maps EIO to an permanent error and prevents the mount from backgrounding. I changed utils/mount/mount.c to use the old non string mount, in order to compare the results --- mount.c.bak 2010-02-16 18:06:09.000000000 +0100 +++ mount.c 2010-02-16 18:06:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ if (nfs_mount_data_version > NFS_MOUNT_VERSION) nfs_mount_data_version = NFS_MOUNT_VERSION; else - if (kernel_version > MAKE_VERSION(2, 6, 22)) + if (kernel_version > MAKE_VERSION(3, 6, 22)) string++; } and I get this result, if there is no route to the host # mount.nfs4 10.1.2.3:/ /mnt/ -v -o bg mount.nfs4: pinging: prog 100003 vers 4 prot tcp port 2049 mount.nfs4: Unable to connect to 10.1.2.3:2049, errno 113 (No route to host) instead of waiting 2 minutes this call immediately returns. If there is just no answer from the host instead of a "no route to host" message, I get # mount.nfs4 10.1.2.3:/ /mnt/ -v -o bg mount.nfs4: pinging: prog 100003 vers 4 prot tcp port 2049 mount.nfs4: Unable to connect to 10.1.2.3:2049, errno 110 (Connection timed out) mount.nfs4: backgrounding "10.1.2.3:/" Both calls to the old non-string mount are significantly faster, and the last one even backgrounds, while the string mount gives EIO in both cases and never backgrounds. I'd like to use the bg option to be able to boot the clients simultaneously with the servers and the clients should just mount the share, as soon as it becomes available. Currently this is never possible with any machine running a kernel newer than 2.6.22, as they will all die of the EIO error. Even for an older Kernel this is only possible, if the server is already booting and can answer ARP requests, as otherwise the mount will die from the "no route to host" message. I'd prefer if mount tried to find a route for about one week, to have some time to turn on the servers separately [so they can spin up their RAIDs sequentially instead of burning the fuse by consuming lots of power during simultaneous spin up], but may be there are good reasons to have it differently. Nevertheless I think that it should at least be possible to mount shares in the background after a timeout for systems with recent kernels using string mount. I observed the given problems with the following systems: Gentoo Kernel 2.6.31.4 nfs-utils 1.1.4 Gentoo Kernel 2.6.31.4 nfs-utils 1.2.1 Fedora 12 Kernel 2.6.31.12 nfs-utils 1.2.1 For now I'll probably just patch nfs_is_permanent_error on all my systems to just map everything to temporary, but I hope there is a more robust solution, that will allow fast feedback on problems and still support background mounts. Cheers Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
