Speed up NFS mounts at boot

[doergn]

Hi all,

I've some NFS mount points that perfectly mount at boot when my NAS is online.
However sometimes the NAS is down and boot takes much much longer as it waits for the
nfs client to timeout.
How (where) can I set the timeout for the NAS client (and/or reduce the retries (if there are any)), so that boot
performs better?

Thanks in advance

Doergn

Oh, almost forgot to mention I'm running F17 (if that is of any matter...)

[jpollard]

You can try adding "bg" to the /etc/fstab entry for the NFS mounts.

It will still delay, but only once - after that a subprocess takes over for subsequent mounts.

Another possiblity is the /etc/nfsmount.conf file to set the background operation.

[doergn]

Thanks jpollard,

retry=0,bg in the mount options works perfect!

Best

Doergn