XBMCbuntu boots too fast.

WonderStivi · 2012-04-25 14:43

I'm mounting my NFS-shares in fstab, and I had some issues where the shares took a while to mount and were not ready when scanning. Adding nfsvers=3 in fstab solved it. Fstab then looked like this:

Path:/to/share /mount/point nfs nfsvers=3,defaults 0 0

TugboatBill · 2012-04-25 16:49

(2012-04-25 12:33)JaccoH Wrote: Adding delays is ugly in my opinion. Either use the NFS support in XBMC or use automount.

Could you post an example of how to set up & configure automount to mount a nfs share to an xbmc client?

**lcapriotti** · 2012-04-25 18:00

welcome indeed!

xbmcoholic · 2012-05-11 22:32

Here's a copy of my automount(autofs) configuration in Ubuntu... Works pretty good but I find most times when resuming from standby, my network adapter cant wakeup before xbmc tries to scan for updates. I just hit yes to resume and it goes through fine.

Quote:Aspire-R3610:~$ cat /etc/auto.master
+auto.master
/mnt /etc/auto.nfs --ghost --timeout=15

Aspire-R3610:~$ cat /etc/auto.nfs
SHARE -fstype=nfs,rw,sync,soft,intr,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,timeo=5,retry=20 172.17.17.99:/SHARE
FreshDownloads -fstype=nfs,rw,sync,soft,intr,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,timeo=5,retry=20 172.17.17.99:/FreshDownloads
HD -fstype=nfs,rw,sync,soft,intr,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,timeo=5,retry=20 172.17.17.99:/HD
HDTV -fstype=nfs,rw,sync,soft,intr,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,timeo=5,retry=20 172.17.17.99:/HDTV
TV -fstype=nfs,rw,sync,soft,intr,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,timeo=5,retry=20 172.17.17.99:/TV
Music -fstype=nfs,rw,sync,soft,intr,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,timeo=5,retry=20 172.17.17.99:/Music

You may notice the high retry and timeout settings. This worked around a WiFi interference issue I've been having causing the mounts to time out...

For those of you trying to stream HD over WiFi I strongly urge you to use NFS instead of CIFS/SAMBA. I get a performance ratio of roughly 3:1 for NFS vs. SAMBA and stepping through 1080p video is instant. Further tweaking on my WiFi configuration got me up to 130Mbps of actual application throughput. I installed the Windows SFU 3.5 (services for unix) on my WinXP server to get NFS server support.

WonderStivi Junior Member Posts: 19 Joined: Apr 2009 Reputation: 0	2012-04-25 14:43 Post: #11 I'm mounting my NFS-shares in fstab, and I had some issues where the shares took a while to mount and were not ready when scanning. Adding nfsvers=3 in fstab solved it. Fstab then looked like this: Path:/to/share /mount/point nfs nfsvers=3,defaults 0 0
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TugboatBill Posting Freak Posts: 788 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 3	2012-04-25 16:49 Post: #12 (2012-04-25 12:33)JaccoH Wrote: Adding delays is ugly in my opinion. Either use the NFS support in XBMC or use automount. Could you post an example of how to set up & configure automount to mount a nfs share to an xbmc client?
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lcapriotti a.k.a Luigi, Team-XBMC XBMCbuntu Dev Posts: 791 Joined: Jan 2008 Reputation: 12 Location: Italy	2012-04-25 18:00 Post: #13 welcome indeed! Always read the XBMC online-manual, FAQ and search the forum before posting. Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules. For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first.
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