On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 12:20 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > 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. Thanks! I'll give it a shot. - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
