Sorry to dig this issue up again. Boot is no longer an issue. However, I ran into a problem whereby the NFS server going offline causes an active session to hang. E.g. running 'syspatch' never completed; same with trying to force-unmount the NFS share. The console hangs and never returns. There should be no open file descriptors on the unavailable NFS mount. All the suggested mount options - soft,intr,bg - are used. Any suggestions to have NFS fail open?
A reboot was required to clear the hang as I ran out of virtual consoles to execute new commands. Regards Lloyd obsd at mulh.net wrote: > On 2026-04-19 8:06:57, Lloyd wrote: > > in /etc/fstab with the following mount options: > > server:/export/shared /mnt nfs rw,nodev,nosuid,soft,intr 0 0 > > > > Any advice to keep unreliable NFS mounts from halting boot would be > > appreciated! > > Add "bg" to the options. ex: > > server:/export/shared /mnt nfs rw,nodev,nosuid,soft,intr,bg 0 0 > > option bg is the same as -b in mount_nfs, see man mount_nfs. > >
