Hi Shejar, what about the "soft" mount option on the client side, and possibly "intr"? Maybe I am misunderstanding your goal but it sounds like that is what you want. Chris ----- "Shehjar Tikoo" <shehjart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all > > I am working on a setup where when a nfsv3 server goes down, the dd > that > is running on the NFS mount point, gets an error on any syscall > performed on that mount point, say a write () to a file on that > mount. > > I've tried setting the timeo and retrans options at mount but that > does > not seem to work in this case. The how-to on linux-nfs site confirms > that the nfs client just waits for the server to come back up after > retrans number of requests. > > Is there a way to have the app receive an EIO or any other error on > TCP > disconnect? > > Thanks > -Shehjar > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
