Network HDD spin up time

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

What are the fstab entries on the clients?

Also if it is a network timing out issue, I would consider looking at autofs; which tends to be a bit more forgiveable:

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

Thanks Tom.