NFS drives seem to take a very long time to mount on a stock install of Gentoo. I'm not sure why this is, but my old Debian system mounted NFS-exports very quickly, while Gentoo takes many minutes for mount to return to the prompt. Running /etc/init.d/netmount on bootup results in a very long (5 minutes?) hang in the boot process. This is probably a configuration issue, but it should probably be setup correctly on install. If not, sorry!
Azarah: not sure about this, other than a hostname IP lookup failing at boot. Submitting this bug to you just in case you have any other ideas.
NFS stuff needs portmap, and if its not running, these timeouts do happen. Our netmount script already have a "use portmap" (actually where 'use' originated :) ), so the user should just merge portmap and add it to the default runlevel: # emerge portmap # rc-update add portmap default
Makes sense, I've done this, and I'll check to make sure this solves the problem. However, if netmount is run by Gentoo by default, isn't it logical that portmap be run by default as well? Or perhaps netmount should check fstab for nfs mounts, and run portmap if there are any.... I dunno.
No. Not all users want portmap. If you have a look at the netmount script, you will see that it have "use portmap" which will handle the starting of portmap before it if portmap is merged and in the default runlevel. I am changing this to FIXED, as all the needed stuff is there, the default "emerge foo && rc-update add foo default" for a service must just be done.
