Mounting a NAS drive that is not always on?

[Bes]

Hi

I have a NAS drive on my Arch Linux box that contains a lot of media, and want it to be seen in the Exaile library.

The only way to get this to happen seems to be to mount the drive, but what happens when it is switched off- will my box complain loudly/ take forever to boot?

Thanks

 

[BillytheImpaler]

No. If the system is trying to mount all the devices in fstab and one of them isn't found it prints an error to the system log and that's about it. It won't make it any slower to boot. If you look in your fstab you'll probably see an entry for your optical drive. Does it complain loudly when you boot with no media in that drive for it to mount?

Exaile may whine that it can't find the files, but that's to be expected.

 

[tntcoder]

It can make your pc slower to shutdown though, I have it now and again, if the share is mounted at boot, then switched off at some point the shutdown process slows down dramatically because it cant connect to the share it thinks is still mounted. Probably a fix for this somewhere though if it bothers you.