[CentOS] NFS hard mount

Wed Nov 13 00:40:02 UTC 2013
zGreenfelder <zgreenfelder at gmail.com>

>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/2013 3:18 PM, Rita wrote:
>> > Is there a tunable to set NFS hard mount time out? For instance, if the
>> > server becomes unavailable for extended amount of time, say 1 hour. I
>> would
>> > like to timeout after 30 secs.
>>
>> timeout and do what, unmount the share, and error to the client app
>> thats trying to do a read(),write(),open(),stat(),etc ?
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Rita <rmorgan466 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, unmount the share and error to the client app.
>>>

... so you want tunable options to turn hard NFS mounts into soft NFS
mounts and just not call it a 'soft' mount?

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-nfs-client-config-options.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsmc.doc_5.3.3%2Fans50000127.htm


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