paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Lance Dryden wrote:
>>> Chances are, not by default. Have the linux clients mount with
>> "soft,intr", and for debugging, set a very short timeout. They still
>> won't recover "quickly", but a default "hard" mount means "NFS
>> filesystem driver will try to satisfy requests to read or write
>> blocks, forever, until it gets them."
>> It's hard to tell if you mean 'soft' is to be used only for debugging or
> whether you're suggesting the poster should use it generally. If you
> mean generally, it should be noted 'soft' should only be used if you can
> suffer data-loss - it means data that an application might think should
> be on disk can in fact get thrown away.
Debugging only... So that touching a dodgy NFS mount doesn't hang the
touching process in a syscall if the NFS server can't be made to respond
properly.
-- Lance
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