I use the "soft" option. Jason
On Monday 21 October 2002 10:54, you wrote: > On October 21, 2002 11:25 am, you wrote: > > Is anyone aware of any NFS client/server settings, or maybe its a mount > > setting, that would address lockups/hangs in graphical file manager > > clients > > Have a look at the man page for mount and the nfs options... > > hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file > system will hang when the server crashes. The pro- > cess cannot be interrupted or killed unless you > also specify intr. When the NFS server is back > online the program will continue undisturbed from > where it was. This is probably what you want. > > soft This option allows the kernel to time out if the > nfs server is not responding for some time. The > time can be specified with timeo=time. This option > might be useful if your nfs server sometimes > doesn't respond or will be rebooted while some pro- > cess tries to get a file from the server. Usually > it just causes lots of trouble. > > nolock Do not use locking. Do not start lockd. > > Haven't used these options recently, but they may be what you are looking > for. > > Martin -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jason Van Dellen Trilogy-Net Inc. #4; 1935 - 27Ave NE Calgary, AB T2E 7E4 www.trilogy-net.com Phone (403) 219-8868 Fax (403) 219-8860 Cell (403) 815-1626 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
