I have a NFS server thats mounts up a share, in Lenny kernel 2.6.26-1-686
i mount up the NFS share in fstab
192.168.0.11:/mnt/NFS /NFS nfs defaults 0 0
when i log on the share is not mounted, i have to manually mount it, why?
When i use Open Suse 11 then mount works. Thanks in advance.

Do you get any errors or warnings in your boot messages?

Are you sure that networking has started properly by the time fstab is trying to mount this drive?

Generally NFS is too finicky to mount with the default mount options. I suggest changing the line in fstab to something like this:

192.168.0.11:/mnt/NFS /NFS nfs _netdev,nfsvers=3,tcp,bg,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0

I suggest running some sort of performance benchmark (copy a large file over to the mountpoint) and compare it to different configurations. In particular, if your NFS server happens to be a Linux box, the following options may work faster, but if you have a gigabit network, you may want to keep the rsize and wsize at 32768. Again, try experimenting to see what works best...

192.168.0.11:/mnt/NFS /NFS nfs _netdev,nfsvers=3,udp,bg,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0

For more info, check out the nfs man page: man nfs.

In particular note that the _netdev parameter will make sure that the NFS filesystems will only get mounted after the network adapters have all been initialized successfully. Note that underscore in front of "netdev", that is normal.

hi,

I have VMs running on Citrix Xenserver 5.6.0.
Problem is that NFS VM might come up later than those VMs that use/mount NFS.

Does _netdev option help in this situation?