On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:44:30AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > Subject: Re: Autofs timeout? > From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:44:30 -0700 > Reply-To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Delivered-To: niftyfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Return-Path: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-Id: <1218725070.6782.114.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sender: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:40 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm using autofs+nfs combo on all my workstations. > > These machine are also used for software testing and crash a -lot-. > > Problem is - both nfs and autofs are notorious for going zombie once the > > host server dies. > > > > Any idea how I can get the nfs-client (and/or the autofs) to time-out > > gracefully / error out, when the nfs server dies instead of just hanging > > till the end of time? > ---- > what's the host server? RHEL? CentOS? > > Is this your issue? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453094 And also does the fstab and autofs mount line contain the intr flag? intr If an NFS file operation has a major timeout and it is hard mounted, then allow signals to interupt the file operation and cause it to return EINTR to the calling program. The default is to not allow file operations to be interrupted. see also "bg" and "soft". Depending on what software testing is testing these might help. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Got a great hat... now what. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
