On 29/12/2011 14:25, Daniel Bird wrote: > Hi All, > I've a quick question I'm hoping someone can help out on; One of our NFS > servers has an intermittent hard lock problem under high load. This is a > CentOS 5.7 box. It's due for replacement sometime next year. However... > > The issue is when this box dies the boxes that mount the NFS exports > have trouble with the mount and some processes time out casing the > system mounting the file system to become unresponsive also. Of course > un-monuting the file system with -l fixes it. > > This is an example of our current mount options in fstab > > hostname:/share1/ /mountpoint nfs rw,intr,soft,bg 0 0 > > The question is, what (other) options should we be using to allow the > mounting server to ignore/fail/timeout the mount, or at least continue > normal processing, when the NFS server packs up? Ahhh, I should read the man pages more carefully!! Just found this retry=n The number of minutes to retry an NFS mount operation in the foreground or background before giving up. The default value for forground mounts is 2 minutes. The default value for background mounts is 10000 minutes, which is roughly one week. So retry=2 would give the same behavior on background mounts as foreground mounts I reckon. > FYI we can't move to NFS4 since we've some old boxes running Solaris 8 > mounting this filesystem also, which cannot be upgraded Solaris 10 to > support v4. > > All the best > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos