Not sure - how would I check for this? I'm afraid my Linux skills are a bit rusty at the moment...
The (apparently) relevant portion of my boot-time syslog looks like the following:
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Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: cobd0 size: 2097152 kb
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: cobd1 size: 65536 kb
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: cobd: loaded (max 32 devices)
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: cobd1 size: 65536 kb
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: cobd: loaded (max 32 devices)
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: conet: loaded (max 16 devices)
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: conet0: initialized
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4$
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 $
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NE$
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on cobd(117$
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data $
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: Adding Swap: 65528k swap-space (priority -1)
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on cobd(117$
Oct 25 20:52:50 bobafett mysqld_safe[426]: started
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From the above, since the "conet" and "NET4" messages are showing up prior to the "EXT3 FS" / "Adding Swap" messages (by some fraction of a second), would it be safe to assume that, yes, my network stuff is coming up prior to the /etc/fstab file being processed? ...or is there any easier way to figure this out?
Now, my understanding is that the /etc/fstab file is being processed by the running of the command "mount -a" during boot. Is there any way to get this command to log any output as to the results of its execution?
Thanks,
--- Mark ---