-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:55:13 +0300, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shouldn't an NFS client retry to mount a fs that wasn't available when > the client boot? In other words, if the NFS server was not available > when the client boots, shouldn't the client retry to mount the fs > according to the retry parameter? > My expectation and understanding of the man page is that it should > retry. Yet this is not what happened here. Is that behavior expected? Can > it be that some other parameter involved? The client attempt to mount > the remote fs bg,soft,intr.
That's not my experience. I can see the `mount' command running in the background if the nfs server was down on boot. do you have the `bg' parameter in your /etc/fstab entry ? example from my /etc/fstab: linux:/ /linux nfs rsize=16384,wsize=16384,noac,soft,intr,bg 0 0 As for `soft' Vs. `hard' parameter (see Oron mail) - When you use the `hard' option and the server goes down (after it was mounted) - your load may go to (almost) infinite value, and there is no way to umount it, OTOH, when it comes up again, any waiting I/O completes successfully as if no interruption occurred. Use this option CAREFULLY. I use it only on mounts of a critical file server. Ehud. - -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others) iD8DBQFAszFzLFvTvpjqOY0RAu1tAJ9NSPytuI5bGdEDyFa1+bKhvD6wFACeMg9a ee4bcz/ie/ZVmdedv9cxnuQ= =8kbg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
