Ron Stodden wrote on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:33:02PM +1000 :
> Todd Lyons wrote:
> 
> >Can you try changing it to soft mounts instead of hard mounts?  Also,
> >have you tried changing the read and write block chunk size?
> 
> man mount makes no mention of any 'hard' or 'soft' mount options, so 
> what is it whereof you speak, please?

From my man page:

Also the following Boolean options, possibly preceded by no are
recognized:  bg,  fg,  soft,  hard, intr, posix, cto, ac, tcp, udp,
lock.  For details, see nfs(5).

Especially useful options include

rsize=8192,wsize=8192 This  will make your nfs connection faster
than with the default buffer size of 4096. (NFSv2 does not work with
larger values  of rsize and wsize.)

hard   The  program  accessing a file on a NFS mounted file
system will hang when the server crashes. The process 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 process tries
to  get  a  file from the server.  Usually it just causes lots of
trouble.

Blue skies...                   Todd
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