One of the ideas is to use interruptible and soft mount as well as lowering the timeo value. A particular timeo value is, perhaps, up to you depends on the environment and requirements your setup has.
Cos > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 07:08, Tobias Schlottke > <tobias.schlot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > We've just set up a Namenode that backups its metadata (as recommended) on > > an NFS store. > > Since this NFS-Mount is not a netapp appliance and can go down anytime, > > I just checked what happens if it goes down and found the DFS no longer > > reacting until it came back. > > > > Is there some best practice on how to configure NFS-Server or the namenode > > not to lock / ignore a mount thats going down? > > > > I'm using CDH beta 2. > > > > Best, > > > > Tobias
