[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#612519: initscripts: mountnfs ignore ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no for hotplug interfaces

[George Shuklin]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.1
Severity: normal

/etc/default/rcS allow use option ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no to make NFS mounts synchronous.

But this option is ignored when interface marked as 'hotplug' (not auto) in /etc/network/interfaces.

I think the problem is in function  exit_unless_last_interface, which one check only interfaces, listed in 'auto' statement and ignore all others, noted as 'hotplug'.

By default all eth interfaces listed not as 'auto', but as 'hotplug' by installer. This cause option ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no useless in case of 'default installation of server with ethernet interface'.

I see two solution for this problem:

1) check every interface, market as 'hotplug' to be online and wait until they complete mounting.

2) Keep current situation, anounce it as 'feature' and add note to rcS manual page about mandatory 'auto' declation for interfaces, add checking fo hotplug interfaces (non-empty hotplug statement) and print warning on screen, when ASYNCMOUNTNFS is disabled.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                   8.5-1        GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                 3.4.3        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.11.2-11    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-27       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                       2.17.2-9     Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                     2.88dsf-13.1 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils              2.88dsf-13.1 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-2  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.13-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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