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Re: Strange behaviour with NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juha Virtanen)
Fri Nov 24 19:10:29 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 19:52:10 +0200 (EET)
From: Juha Virtanen <jiivee@hut.fi>
To: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <khijol!erc@vger.rutgers.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511232037.OAA18238@khijol>
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] wrote:
> Um, this isn't limited to Linux - Solaris also exhibits this behavior. When one of our NFS
> servers dumps the big one, we often have to reboot the clients. Someone suggested that the
> mounts be changed from 'hard' to 'soft', but I don't think this would make any difference.
>
> Suggestions welcome...
Make NFS mounts both soft and interruptible. I use likes like the
one below to do NFS mounts. Then machines can go up'n'down as
they will and users can interrupt requests to NFS partitions easily.
iguana.hut.fi:/u1 /u1 nfs bg,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
Juha
