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
