On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Josh Brooks wrote:
>
> Helol,
>
> I have used NFS on sun/solaris systems for many years, and the one big
> headache that comes to mind is how, if the server is down, and the client
> has an automount on boot, the client will hang forever (basically forever)
> trying to mount from the down NFS server.
>
> Does this behavior exist in the FreeBSD world ? What other related
> behavior can I expect if I have about 10 servers that are all _clients_
> for an 11th NFS server, and that NFS server goes down ? Will the
> performance on the clients go down when the NFS server disappears ?
>
> Will they too, like solaris systems, hang forever on boot when the nfs
> server they automount is not present ?
It should be configurable. From the mount_nfs(8) man page:
By default, mount_nfs keeps retrying until the mount succeeds.
This behaviour is intended for filesystems listed in fstab(5)
that are critical to the boot process. For non-critical
filesystems, the -b and -R flags provide mechanisms to prevent
the boot process from hanging if the server is unavailable.
Read the rest at <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nfs>.
If you are using amd(8) to auto mount, options should be tweakable in
amd.conf. FreeBSD does not have an exact equivalent to the Solaris
automounter.
$.02,
/Mikko
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