[SOLVED] Best fstab network devices mount practice

Rezney · 04-26-2015, 06:19 AM

Hi all,

On RHEL7, I am using NFS, Samba and iSCSI target. I would like to ask you what is the best practise to get them mounted as fast as possible or eventually skip one of them in case of network/service issue?

So far I am using:

Code:

/dev/sda1/  /mnt  xfs  defaults,_netdev  0 0
192.168.122.59:/public  /nfsmount  nfs  defaults,hard,intr,nfsvers=4  0 0
//192.168.122.59/sambafs /sammnt  cifs  multiuser,sec=ntlmssp,_netdev,credentials=/root/smb.txt  0 0

Especially after adding Samba the boot slowed significantly and after turning off iSCSI target it hangs.
Is the _netdev option usefull also in RHEL7?

Thanks...

TobiSGD · 04-26-2015, 06:29 AM

I don't know about the _netdev option, but for network devices on a systemd distro you should definitely use the nofail option and maybe specify a timeout using the x-systemd.device-timeout option.
The nofail option will skip the mount after the network device can not be found for the amount of time specified with the timeout option.

Rezney · 04-26-2015, 09:20 AM

Thanks man! Now it works like charm...