Lan Thanks! What is async and why fixes NFS problems like slowness? I use Autofs to NFS mount directories. Does this async gotcha still apply?
Chris On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:07, Lan Barnes wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:46:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > M > > > > Thanks! Things seem ok after rebooting server. > > I'll try that if problems persists. The following is a very > > Microsoftish solution but it seems to be a good idea.... > > > > I wonder if I should expect strangeness like this after a > > NIS/NFS/Web/Email/file server has been running for a couple > > of months. > > > > People brag about 1 year uptimes but if I need to reboot server > > every quarter that wouldn't really be that bad right!? :) > > > > Chris > > I've never had this problem with NFS on my home server. > > Here is my server line from /etc/exports: > > /data/pub *.family.net(rw,async,no_root_squash) > > Here is my line from /etc/fstab on the clients: > > linus:/data/pub /data/pub nfs defaults 0 0 > > The important qualifier is async. If you do hard connections, all hell > breaks loose whenever the server is at all unavailable, mostly > characterized by s*l*o*w response and even apparent lock ups. > > HTH, > > -- > Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
