[nflug] NFS noac option

[Darin Perusich]

i don't specify any client side mount options but hard is the default. i 
always use autofs, this allows for dynamically adding nfs filesystems as 
i'm sure you know.

Justin Bennett wrote:
> Thanks for the link, what's the generally preferred method? 'hard,intr'?
> 
> 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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