<div dir="ltr">Note that the NFS mounts might be stuck if they were not mounted with the "intr" option. If that's the case, you might have to reboot.<div><br></div><div>Personally, I prefer the fstab method for my nfs stuff. I haven't found that autofs buys me much for my uses except another moving part to debug...</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've found that some variation of the following mount options to consistently give performant and usable NFS mounts on my Linux boxes:</div><div><br></div><div>intr,nolock,noatime,tcp,async,rsize=32768,wsize=32768<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>YMMV, but these will probably start as a good starting point. Once I came to these, pretty much all my NFS-related headaches went away.</div><div><br></div><div>QH</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, David L. Willson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu" target="_blank">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman">+1 for autofs<br><br>static mounts of network file-systems from /etc/fstab suck<br><br>autofs keeps the system clean and tidy<br><span><br><span name="x"></span>--<br>
David L. Willson<br>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">You can unmount it and remount it to avoid the reboot. I'd suggest looking to autofs - it'll mount your device/partition on demand (as requested, automatically) and unmount when unused therefore avoiding the mount going stale.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Mike Bean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com" target="_blank">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We seem to be developing an impressive array of problems with stale nfs mounts; what research I've been doing suggests mostly just rebooting the box. Is there a better way that has escaped my efforts?<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Mike Bean<br></font></span></div>
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