Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:50:16 +0000 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS & rebooting Message-ID: <20051029185016.1b6688c2.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <4363C23D.5020502@psknet.com> References: <4363C23D.5020502@psknet.com>
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:41:01 -0400 Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com> wrote: > All, Hi Troy. > A long time ago (3.x days?), whenver I rebooted an NFS server, all > the client machines with mounted filesystems would completely freak > out. I'm not talking about application errors, but that the nfs > mounts were totally unresponsive. I couldn't unmount the filesystems > and I couldn't remount them, the only thing I could do, was to force > a reboot on the client boxes, after which, they would come up and > mount their filesystems without issue. > > I'm looking again, at using NFS for my mail server setup, but need to > know what the ramifications are if I need to reboot the NFS server, > or if it's forced to reboot without the clients first dismounting any > filesystems. A whole lot has changed since the 3.x times. >From my experience, the clients (FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux) were fully responsive and could reach the NFS mounts when the NFS server came back up after reboot. Cheers, Marcin
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