From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 13:18:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38438154AD for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crandall@matchlogic.com) Received: by houston.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:18:41 -0700 Message-ID: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0304621F6F@houston.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Greg Subject: RE: MFS through NFS Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:18:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What are you most concerned with, the NFS server reboot or the stale file handle on the NFS clients? They're two different problems. I'd focus on the first. Any time FreeBSD spontaneously reboots and it isn't a hardware problem then it's probably a kernel bug. You don't mention which version of FreeBSD, which NFS version (1 or 2), or the transport (TCP or UDP) you're using. That information is necessary to reproduce the problem. If you can provide a very detailed description of the problem (including OS versions on both sides, NFS export configuration, NFS mount options, automounter configuration, description of the type of file access the client is doing, sample client code which always crashes the NFS server, etc.), then you should send it to freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Greg [mailto:admin@fastserve.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 8:45 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MFS through NFS Hello freebsd-questions, I run a server cluster that does allot of logging across NFS to an MFS drive. The problem is once in a while the server with the MFS drive reboots for no apparent reason. When it comes back up the other servers get a stale nfs handle and do not perform the auto remount routine like they would an ordinary drive. The nfs mounts are mounted with the bg options. They are supposed to fork off a child process and remount automatically as soon as the server comes back up. Is there some kind of option or switch I am missing in this configuration? Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks Best regards, Greg mailto:admin@fastserve.net Fastserve Network 548 S. Spring St. Suite 1100 Los Angeles Ca. 90013 The Net Never Sleeps And Neither Do We To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message