Johan Swensson wrote: > Try with the soft option. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Casey" <michaelcasey73 at gmail.com> > To: centos at 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