On May 11, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: > 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. I did a cron on a client who is also an OSX 10.5 server and then killed the NFS server that it had automounted. No hangs on the client but I haven't tested this on my Centos clients yet which is actually my main concern. I was actually surprised that OSX behaved for once.