NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

[Steven Hartland]

Mike Meyer wrote:
>> No, it will fail immediately (as seen above) if it can't resolve the
>> server name.  The only way to fix this is to modify mount_nfs to
>> sleep and retry in such cases.  The *current* sleep-and-retry code
>> is in the NFS mount code in the kernel, which doesn't come into play
>> until after DNS lookup.
> 
> In that case, there's a bug in the mount_nfs man page, which just says
> that it keeps retrying until it succeeds. PR #110062

Given that it sounds like a potential workaround is to use the machines
IP instead of name until this is fixed, thanks for the info guys.

    Steve


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