Re: nfs mount painfully slow in %post

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 19:51, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> 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.

It's accurate.  The mount in the installer environment is a hacked mount
which does the equivalent of -o nolock by default.

Cheers,

Jeremy