Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:43:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: ARCHIVE <archive@in-design.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS wows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008142241080.24623-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <PNENKIKMOHECNEIGAACBMEEMDEAA.archive@in-design.com>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, ARCHIVE wrote: > Hello all; > > We have an install where there are multiple fbsd boxes. Now to make life > simple for kernel rebuilds and the like I nfs mount from one machine. This > machine has the ports and the src and for added comfort the user > directories. At first this seamed like a great idea but it is turning out to > be a night mare. When the nfs server "disappears" for what ever reason, all > the client services seam to hang. That includes login, web, ssh, named... > nothing works. Is there a way to make it so that if that partition > disappears the machines don't become hosed? That shouldn't happen, unless the NFS mounted filesystems contain files that the hung processes need. I do this all the time actually. As long as I don't enter /usr/src while the NFS server is down, everything is ok. If I do, my process will hang waiting for the server to come back up. You should take a look at what you are mounting exactly. If sounds like you are mounting all of /usr or something on your clients, rather than just /usr/src and /usr/obj You can also make the NFS mount soft (as opposed to hard), so they will time out after a while. However, there will still be a delay. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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