Bug#1082499: nfs mounts should depend upon networking

[Luca Boccassi]

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Control: close -1

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:08:55 +0200 Harald Dunkel <harri at afaics.de>
wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 252.30-1~deb12u2
> 
> Apparently NFS mounts depend upon networking, but the generated
> service files don't tell. Sample:
> 
>       % systemctl cat home.mount
>       # /run/systemd/generator/home.mount
>       # Automatically generated by systemd-fstab-generator
> 
>       [Unit]
>       Documentation=man:fstab(5) man:systemd-fstab-generator(8)
>       SourcePath=/etc/fstab
>       Before=remote-fs.target
> 
>       [Mount]
>       What=nfs00:/space/home
>       Where=/home
>       Type=nfs
>       Options=sec=sys,noatime
> 
> Networking might be stopped at shut down/reboot time, even
> though some NFS mounts are still busy. You run into a very
> painful "NFS server not repsonding, still trying", which
> lasts for several minutes, even though it cannot be resolved
> without network.

There are no patches or configuration changes related to this in the
packages, so please file this upstream on Github after confirming it's
still an issue in the latest version (you can use testing/unstable).