[CentOS] disable autofs timeout

[aurfalien at gmail.com]

On May 11, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Todd Denniston wrote:

> Brian Mathis wrote, On 05/11/2010 10:35 AM:
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Rudi Ahlers  
>> <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Brian Mathis  
>>> <brian.mathis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> A simple solution would be to setup a cron job that runs every 5
>>>> minutes and does
>>>>   ls /mount/point > /dev/null
>>> How would this fix the problem though? I'm asking cause I sit with  
>>> the same
>>> problem, and haven't figured out yet to tell a remote server what  
>>> todo if
>>> the NFS server is unavailable (be it network problems, maintenance,
>>> incorrect password, etc)
>>>
>>> Rudi Ahlers
>>
>> It doesn't fix it -- it's an ugly workaround -- but it works to keep
>> them mounted.  I don't know of an elegant solution if the NFS server
>> goes away.  I've seen it hang the clients until they timeout.  Maybe
>> an NFS expert on the list will be able to provide a better solution.
>
> BTW, keeping the mount point busy pretty much invalidates the use of  
> autofs

My critical servers are autofs and don't slam the nfs server.

However my clients do peg it so you are right.

> If you really want permanent mounts, then I suggest going back to  
> using fstab with the bg & intr
> options and ignore autofs, because it appears autofs only causes  
> trouble for you.
>

Already do.

> BTW what applications are you having autocompletion issues with?  I  
> have been using autofs for ~15
> years and have only had issues with soft mounting causing data  
> corruption.
>

Command line tab completion and a custom 3D script.

I think I'll do KISS on this one and just use fstab was I've been  
doing with bg, hard, intr.