From: Ehud Karni (ehud_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 25 May 2004 - 14:43:48 IDT
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:55:13 +0300, Shaul Karl <shaulk_at_actcom.net.il> 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.
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