First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

[BadMagic]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot
Date: 	Tue, 18 May 2010 02:49:35 +1000
From: 	BadMagic <badmagic at foo-unix.org>
To: 	Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>



On 05/17/2010 08:33 PM, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote:
>  On Mon, 17 May 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
>>  BadMagic<badmagic at foo-unix.org>   writes:
>>
>>>  On 05/17/2010 12:16 AM, Tim wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:05 +1000, BadMagic wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Basically, whichever entry goes first, doesn't get mounted.
>>>>>
>>>>  Are the clients connecting to the network using network manager?
>>>>  Perhaps the network isn't up at the time the first mount is attempted,
>>>>  but is by the time the next two are.
>>>>
>>>  Possible - if this were the problem, what can be
>>>  done to investigate/fix this?
>>>
>>  echo "NETWORKWAIT=yes">>    /etc/sysconfig/network
>>
>>  reboot
>>
>>  I'm not sure why networkwait isn't the default.  Running without it
>>  causes quite a bit of the stuff that relies on the network to fail.
>>
>>  -wolfgang
>>
>  Is this documented somewhere ?
>
>  It is not in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.02.1/sysconfig.txt for Fedora 12
>  or /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.12/sysconfig.txt for Fedora 13.
>
>  Regards
>
NETWORKWAIT didn't work either.

I noticed one strange thing. I put an entry in my fstab above the other
legitimate entries like:

fs1:/data/users     /users    nfs      defaults  0 0


fs1:/data/users does exist on the server but I deleted the /users
mountpoint on my computer to see what would happen.

It skips this entry and the next legit entry and still only mounts the
last 2.

This is like something out of a nerd horror movie.

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I found how to fix it.

Inside of /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs - the part that mounts the NFS shares, I put:

sleep 30

Does this give any clues as to what's going on?
Both servers have Gigabit NICs in them (I've even stuck an Intel PRO1000 G in my
Sun Microsystems E450) and the PC has SATA2 drives in it. I've also enabled jumbo frames (set to 9014 on all machines).

Does this mean my NFS servers are too slow?