On 06/07/2017 12:08 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:04:12AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: >> # ps ax | grep mount >> 980 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/mount.nfs nfssrv:/home/tmp /mnt/tmp -o rw,bg > > Right, but I think we also need to see a "systemctl status > remote-fs.target", or something, to verify whether that's the forked > background process or just the foreground process that's still hanging > up some part of the boot process (even though it's gotten far enough > along that you can log in--unless logins aren't permitted till remote > fs's are mounted, I don't know.) It succeeds... # systemctl status remote-fs.target * remote-fs.target - Remote File Systems Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/remote-fs.target; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active since Tue 2017-06-06 12:36:51 EDT; 12min ago Docs: man:systemd.special(7) Jun 06 12:36:51 f26 systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems. The reason being, as Neil pointed out, the mount.nfs gets the ECONNREFUSED right away because the server is down. So a child is quickly forked that continues to try the mount... Basically sneaking around systemd back... Which is hard to do... these day 8-) steved. -- 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