On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 05:37:54 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 01/30/2012 11:35 PM, gene heskett wrote: > <snippage> > > > Both machines have now been rebooted, it seems you can't reboot just > > one end of an NFS link as the un-rebooted end of it will lock solid, > > needs a reset button push to reboot within about 10 minutes. But > > that is secondary. Faint memories remind me that it happened several > > times before & may be one of the reasons I didn't really want to use > > nfs. But it otherwise is working well for the usage I need. > > Gene, NFS really shouldn't be doing that. Sounds like the client side > is hanging when it can't complete any I/O to the NFS mounted disk. What > I'd do in that case is run the NFS server on your pclos machine, and the > client on your Ubuntu box. If you reboot your Ubuntu box to clear a > LinuxCNC (gawd, it's hard not to type EMC2...) problem, the NFS server > shouldn't freeze up, since it only lost the client connection. When the > Ubuntu machine comes back up, it'll just NFS mount the disk on the pclos > machine. That should cure the lock problem. Bear in mind Mark, that I now have it setup so each is both a client and a server, so that I can copy stuff in both directions. No clue if that is a no-no, but it works, until I reboot either one. Perhaps some other option needs to be enabled in /etc/exports? Like Sgt. Schultz, I no nothing. :)
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