Hello, Is it safe to use the "soft" mount option with proto=tcp on newer kernels (e.g 3.2 and newer)? Currently using the "defaults" nfs mount options on Ubuntu 12.04 results in processes blocking forever in uninterruptable sleep if they attempt to access a mountpoint while the NFS server is offline. I would prefer that NFS simply return an error to the clients after retrying a few times, however I also cannot have data loss. From the man page, I think these options will give that effect? soft,proto=tcp,timeo=10,retrans=3 >From my understanding, this will cause NFS to retry the connection 3 times (once per second), and then if all 3 are unsuccessful return an error to the application. Is this correct? Is there a risk of data loss or corruption by using "soft" in this way? Or is there a better way to approach this? Thanks, Andrew Martin -- 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
