[Puppet Users] Re: NFS clients - puppet hang when mount point

madAndroid
2011-11-10T12:02:59Z

That sounds a little heavy handed ...

also, I feel that it would probably stop the mount from happening at
all?
how would the fstab initiate the nfs mount if it''s not able to resolve
the address of the nfs server correctly?
unless I''m missing something ..


On Nov 9, 7:12 pm, Guy Matz <gm...@matz.org>
wrote:
> OK.  This may seem like a bad idea, but it''s a workaround that has
worked
> for me:
> I add the nfs server to the 127.0.0.1 entry of the hosts file which causes
> NFS to time out pretty immediately.  :-\
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM, madAndroid <andrewsta...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > We''ve only recently discovered that puppet can manage mount
points
> > using the mount directive;
> > however, a short while back we built an nfs client and server classes
> > without using this resource, and we''ve encountered a problem
where
> > puppet seems to hang when the nfs server is unavailable.
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> > Using --debug doesn''t seem to specify exactly at which point
the run
> > is failing, which could steer us in the right direction around putting
> > something in place in the classes in question.
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> > Is there anything we can do, short of switching over to using the
> > mount directive/resource, in order to mitigate the problem when the
> > nfs server is unavailable? It''s preventing us from managing
other
> > resources on the clients when this happens..
>
> > thanks in advance,
> > Andrew
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