Re: Re: A couple questions

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:59:58PM -0400, David Ondzes wrote:
> In the mean time I have resorted to mounting the shares via nfs and
> creating a mount point on /tmp. Which has it own problems. The mount
> command takes about 5-7 minutes to return, why ?

DNS timeouts?  Is the NFS server running some sort of local packet
filter that might be blocking the mount-related traffic?  It should
only take a few seconds at most for the mount to come up.  See details
here of how I got it working:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical/1679

If you're doing all that and it's not working quickly, you might
try running tcpdump on the NFS server and see what it's trying to do
when the mount is requested.

> Is there a better place to create a mount point ?

tmp is probably the easiest place.  If you must have it somewhere else,
you might be able to use the bind mount trick described here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical/67

But note that you'll have to build the "mount" command from util-linux
yourself, because I don't believe the shipped version supports the
-bind option.

                                                  -Dave Dodge