On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 19:11, Gregory Gulik wrote: > I used to use a SPARC Ultra system running Solaris 8 as a file server > and I never had NFS issues at all. > > I've since replaced it with a nice Xeon based Dell box with RH9. I'm > already having NFS problems. One of things I do is all my NFS mounts > are handled by the automounter, I don't like file systems mounted that > aren't used. > > My /etc/auto.net entries look like this: > > nfsserver -rw,soft,intr nfsserver.gagme.com:/home I don't recommend you using "soft" NFS mounts right now. That can produce I/O erros like the ones you're seeing, or even hard freezes. If I were you, I would stick with "hard" NFS mounts at the moment.