On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:28:30AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18 2016, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Not really arguing--I'll trust your judgement--just some random ideas: > > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:32:52AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 17 2016, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >> > In which case what it really wants to say is "before nfs mounts" (or > >> > even "before nfs mounts of localhost"; and vice versa on shutdown). I > >> > can't tell if there's an easy way to get say that. > >> > >> I'd be happy with a difficult/complex way, if it was reliable. > >> Could we write a systemd generator which parses /etc/fstab, determines > >> all mount points which a loop-back NFS mounts (or even just any NFS > >> mounts) and creates a drop-in for nfs-server which adds > >> Before=mount-point.mount > >> for each /mount/point. > >> > >> Could that be reliable? I might try. > > > > Digging around... we've also got this callout from mount to start-statd, > > can we use something like that to make loopback nfs mounts wait on nfs > > server startup? > > An nfs mount already waits for the server to start up. The ordering > dependency between NFS mounts and the nfs-server only really matters at > shutdown, and we cannot enhance mount.nfs to wait for a negative amount > of time (also known as "time travel") D'oh, I keep forgetting that point. --b. -- 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
