[nflug] NFS noac option

[Justin Bennett]

Thanks for the link, what's the generally preferred method? 'hard,intr'?

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



Darin Perusich wrote:
> see http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_e4 for the "risks of using "soft" 
> mounts" as they put it.
>
> Justin Bennett wrote:
>> Mail is delivered / served from these as well, everything would just 
>> log jam behind the hard mounts, trying to shut services down on the 
>> way down, and then ultimatly the NFS and NFSLOCK on services on the 
>> client shutting down. I found the soft mounts allowed things to error 
>> out and shutdown cleanly before the UPS died. Is there a downfall 
>> about soft mounts I'm missing, other than things may error out if the 
>> NFS box is down?
>>
>> Darin Perusich wrote:
>>> that sounds to me like your other services where not stopped before 
>>> the file systems where trying to unmount. i know that samba doesn't 
>>> care about open files when you tell it to stop. it usually the same 
>>> for nfsd, it doesn't care if clients have resources mount, it just 
>>> stops serving the FS and the clients get stale nfs handles.
>>>
>
>
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