Joan, These were Linux/390 systems? Or Intel Linux? (Just curious where you might have gotten the Slackware.)
NFS servers going down is well-known to cause problems with the systems that have NFS file systems mounted. As Eddie Chen pointed out, you can specify "soft" on the mount parameters, but the man page for mount isn't very reassuring: "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." You may want to try the "intr" option that it mentions instead. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Grindell, Joan M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NFS problems on Linux client when Solaris HOST crashes I hope i've sent this inquiry to the correct address. The other night our SUN system running Solaris 2.6 crashed. Attached via NFS mount were a couple of LINUX machines (each was running SLACKWARE 2.2.16). When the SUN box crashed it appears to have hosed the linux machines. We couldn't log into the linux machines and they had to be booted. We wondering if anyone is aware of this problem and if they have any solutions. Thanks, Joan
