Thanks for this Wayne.

We've been having this problem for a few weeks and have tried many
fixes. Your netfs suggestion worked for us. We moved the chkconfig
start to 60 and the disk mounted at reboot.

# chkconfig: 345 60 40
# description: Mounts and unmounts all Network File System (NFS), \
#         SMB/CIFS (Lan Manager/Windows), and NCP (NetWare) mount
points.


berthiaume_wayne@(protected):
> Hi Ralph.
>
>  There is a outstanding bugzilla,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=260541, for this issue. What
> is happening is the iscsi will fail to log into the target in time for
> netfs() to mount the LUNs. One solution I've used to help get around it
> is to add a sleep() in the iscsi init script after the loading of the
> iscsi_tcp module. This has to be tuned to the delays in your network and
> is a rather hookey way to do things.
>
> Regards,
> Wayne.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhelv5-list-bounces@(protected)
> [mailto:rhelv5-list-bounces@(protected)
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:32 PM
> To: rhelv5-list@(protected)
> Subject: [rhelv5-list] Mounting an iscsi volume at boot.
>
> Hi all,
> The problem:
> I'm having a problem getting an iscsi volume to be mounted on boot.
>
> What does work:
> I can mount the volume/disk "/etc/sda1" after booting with no problem.
>
> Discoverys:
> I have found that using the fstab option "defaults,_netdev" does what it
>
> says it does and only try's to mount the drive after networking is up.
> However the drive is not available when the "netfs" script is run
> via "/etc/rcX.d/S25netfs" so it cannot mount the drive. If I move netfs
> to
> be launched later say "/etc/rcX.d/S60netfs" the drive is mounted.
>
> Is there a fix for this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ralph
>
> One more thing, I will be using this SAN drive for holding some VM's
> (using
> Vmware) and Vmware installs the start script as "S19vmware" so the drive
>
> will never be mounted before vmware starts.
> Obviously this is a problem.
>
>  

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