[nflug] NFS noac option

[Justin Bennett]

ok. All my auto.x entries are mounting as -soft. I can take the -soft out.

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



Darin Perusich wrote:
> 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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