[clue-tech] nfs frustrations

[Angelo Bertolli]

Is this different than autofs, or is there more than one auto mounter?

chris fedde wrote:
> running amd is the easy way around this. it unmounts file systems that
> are not in use and remounts them on demand.  If you are using ubuntu
> or debian you can install the am-tools package and have the daemon and
> a basic config with the /net file system installed.
> accesses to /net/system_name/exported_directory will "just work".
> More complex configs are not that hard to add if you need them.
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Angelo Bertolli
> <angelo.bertolli at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ok so none of the options on an NFS mount do what I want it to do.  Maybe
>> automount is the only solution, but for regular nfs...
>>
>> 1) There doesn't seem to be any way to get the system to automatically
>> unmount a filesystem that is not responding
>>
>> 2) There doesn't seem to be any way to tell NFS to fail within 1 minute.  I
>> know the maximum retrans timeout is supposed to be 60 seconds, but after
>> tweaking it
>>
>> When a mount is unavailable (I'm using ls to test) ...
>>   - soft/hard doesn't seem to make any difference (I'm using ro,noexec)
>>   - retrans, timeo, retry don't seem to make any difference no matter what
>> settings I use
>>   - I've tried at least 10 combinations of the above, and ls returns with an
>> IO error within 3 - 5 minutes every time.
>>
>>
>> Oh well.  We're using nfs3.  Should I expect different behavior from nfs4 ?
>>
>> Angelo
>>
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