Re: nfs mount painfully slow in %post

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:

>> I think I'm probabbly missing something dumb but I can't for the life of
>> me figure out what it is.
>
>It is trying to get a lock.  Try mount -o nolock,wsize=8192,rsize=8192
>server:/dir
>
>The -o nolock option should keep it from trying to lock it, causing a
>10-20 minute timeout.

I'm sure this works, because people keep suggesting it, but I'm not sure
it's an accurate diagnosis.

I worked around this problem by doing the mount in a separate %pre
section, with --nochroot.


Cheers,

Phil