[nflug] NFS noac option

[Justin Bennett]

Ok, I'm not sure, It's one of those things it may have been an issue 3 
years ago, not sure why I have it. I know at one point I switched to 
soft mounts, to help unmount the shares in the even of a UPS triggered 
shutdown.

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



Darin Perusich wrote:
> i would recommend that you turn off noac, is there a reason that you 
> are using it? seeing that it is not a default option unless you truly 
> need it i'd turn it off.
>
> there is generally no reason to use anything other then the default 
> nfs mount options. the defaults are the optimal options.
>
> Justin Bennett wrote:
>> For all you NFS junkies out there,
>>
>>   I've got a Redhat V 3ES NFS server and several Redhat 2.1ES 
>> clients. I've got NIS and Automounter mounting NFS shares on one of 
>> the 2.1 boxes which then acts as a samba server to the PC's. I've got 
>> the auto.x files mounting the shares with a 'noac' option. I've 
>> noticed this slows my write times down to a crawl. a 38MB files takes 
>> 2 minutes to write with the 'noac' option, and 6 seconds without it. 
>> Do I really need to use the 'noac' option? I really only have one 
>> active client (the samba server) the other clients do a backup of the 
>> NFS box once a night, and our database does an export there nightly. 
>> Would I cause myself greif by getting rid of the 'noac' option? what 
>> it I just set 'actimeo=3' or something like that?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Justin
>>
>>
>
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