Thanks to everyone for your suggestions on fixing my hung file managers when NFS mounted servers went down. The following fstab nfs mount options entry fixed it, as suggested. I also stopped using nfslock

rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,soft

Also entered it into my personal "Linux Tips" database. Once I clean it up (slammed the db and interface together in a blind rush), I will make it available for others to post tips, hints, tweaks etc and will provide the db dumps to anyone that wants them. Over time could become a very useful, indexed, categorized database of Linux tips for everyone.

Thanks again


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>
> -----Original message-----
> From: "JasonVanDellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 10/21/2002(Mon) 10:53am
> Subject: Re: (clug-talk) NFS or mount issues
>
> 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
>
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