I have seen some talk about this but have not seen any answers. I know this is a problem on CentOS 7.1 and I also think it is a problem on CentOS 7.0.

Basically if I have an NFS client only config – meaning that the nfs-server.service is not enabled then I have to wait 60 seconds after boot for the 1st NFSV3 mount to succeed.

What I can surmise is the following. I attempt to perform a NFS mount a newly booted machine and systemd via listening sockets

(1) starts rpc.statd (fails)
(2) starts rpcbind
(3) rpc.statd timesout after 60 seconds and then starts sucessfully
(3) performs the nfs mount

I see that rpc.statd is attempted to start at the time that I perform the mount request – it just takes 60 seconds to start. I think this is because it tries to start before rpcbind is really stated and then waits a full 60 seconds before retying. It then succeeds because rpcbind is really started

I can fix the delay by running ‘systemctl start rpcbind’ after I reboot which causes rpcbind to start and not just be socket activated.

I see in the systemd manifest for rpc-statd that it does require rpcbind but I think systemd is trying to start rpc.statd before rpcbind which makes sense that this would not work.

If I enable nfs-server.service then rpcbind does really get started but I loathe to start this on all clients

Anyone have any ideas how to get rpcbind started before rpc.statd in a NFS client only config

root /root 103# systemd-analyze blame
1min 87ms rpc-statd.service

root@ls2 /root 79# systemctl list-units | grep rpc rpcbind.socket loaded active listening RPCbind Server Activation Socket

Aug 30 18:17:14 ls2.tokenrain.name systemd: Starting NFS status monitor for NFSv2/3 locking…. Aug 30 18:17:14 ls2.tokenrain.name rpc.statd[1938]: Version 1.3.0 starting Aug 30 18:17:14 ls2.tokenrain.name rpc.statd[1938]: Flags: TI-RPC
Aug 30 18:17:14 ls2.tokenrain.name systemd: Starting RPC bind service… Aug 30 18:17:14 ls2.tokenrain.name systemd: Started RPC bind service. Aug 30 18:18:14 ls2.tokenrain.name systemd: Started NFS status monitor for NFSv2/3 locking..

USER PID PPID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME
COMMAND
root 1935 1924 0.0 0.0 115212 1436 ? S 18:17 00:00:00
/bin/bash -p /usr/sbin/start-statd root 1936 1935 0.0 0.0 132520 1196 ? S 18:17 00:00:00
systemctl start rpc-statd.service root 1937 1 0.0 0.0 44288 1676 ? Ss 18:17 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd –no-notify root 1938 1937 0.0 0.0 44484 1340 ? Ss 18:17 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd –no-notify

USER PID PPID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME
COMMAND
rpcuser 1938 1 0.0 0.0 44484 1600 ? Ss 18:17 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd –no-notify