Autofs timeout?

[Nifty Fedora Mitch]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:44:30AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Subject: Re: Autofs timeout?
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> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:44:30 -0700
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> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:40 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm using autofs+nfs combo on all my workstations.
> > These machine are also used for software testing and crash a -lot-.
> > Problem is - both nfs and autofs are notorious for going zombie once the
> > host server dies.
> > 
> > Any idea how I can get the nfs-client (and/or the autofs) to time-out
> > gracefully / error out, when the nfs server dies instead of just hanging
> > till the end of time?
> ----
> what's the host server?  RHEL?  CentOS?
> 
> Is this your issue?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453094

And also does the fstab and autofs mount line contain the intr flag?

       intr           If an NFS file operation has a major timeout and  it  is
                      hard  mounted,  then  allow signals to interupt the file
                      operation and cause it to return EINTR  to  the  calling
                      program.  The default is to not allow file operations to
                      be interrupted.

see also "bg" and "soft".

Depending on what software testing is testing these might help.


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