Re: if no NFS server clients are waiting..

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com>]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Michael Casey wrote:
> > the fstab entry is this
> >
> > vim /etc/fstab
> > 192.168.1.1:/mnt/share/ /home/user/Desktop/Share/ nfs
> > defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock 0 0
>
> By default, NFS mounts are "hard" so if the server goes bye-bye the
> client will lock up until the server comes back.
Generally both 'soft' and 'intr' can be used to allow the client to handle 
server issues. Neither is default, and you don't want to disable anything you 
can't run without.

> Try adding "soft,retrans=6" to the mount options:
>
>     defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock,soft,retrans=6
>
> See if that helps.  Oh, and you might want to try doing TCP rather than
> the default UDP (add "tcp" to the options).

??? Unless both wireshark and the man page are wrong, TCP has been the default 
for ages.

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