On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:28:13 Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > > Is there a way in RHEL 5 for NFS clients to recover automatically after a > server reboot?
There is the "hard" (and "intr" that can go with it) option for NFS mounts: hard If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report "server not responding" on the console and continue retrying indefinitely. This is the default. intr If an NFS file operation has a major timeout and it is hard mounted, then allow signals to interupt the file operation and cause it to return EINTR to the calling program. The default is to not allow file operations to be interrupted. Note that "hard" is the default, but the option "soft" (or "nohard") cancels it. I use "hard,intr" and it solve the problem you describe in most case but not all (I did not find the reasons for the different behavior). > Every time my server goes down, even for just a few minutes the clients get > stuck with STALE nfshandles and the only way for me to recover is to umount > and then mount again. Try my suggestion above. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il