[CentOS] boot-time NFS mount failures

[Vahan Yerkanian]

On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Hello List,
> 
> I have a problem with a CentOS 5 server running Oracle DBMS with
> the transaction logs going to an NFS share on our CentOS 6/Bacula
> backup server. The Oracle server has this in its /etc/fstab file:
> 
> backup:/home/backup/Oracle      /backup_nfs     nfs
> hard,intr,noexec,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
> 


Just add _netdev to the mount options.

From man:

_netdev
The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system).
HTH,
Vahan