Johan Swensson wrote:
Try with the soft option.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Casey" michaelcasey73@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:06:31 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting..
What can I do, If the NFS server is rebooting/offline? I mean the clients just wait and wait and wait...
I tried to set
timeo=5,retrans=2
mount options when mounting nfs in fstab on client side = still no luck, clients are just waiting... Can I set a timeout somewhere? :D
If the server is just rebooting, then don't use the "soft" option. In fact, I would never use the soft option - see: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s04.html#mount_options
You probably want to use "hard,intr"
If the server is really offline for a period, then you can clear the mount entry by using 'umount -l /mount/point' - see umount(1)
James Pearson