Rex wrote: > > The server has several NFS shares on it. > > The workstation connects to a couple of these. > > But the workstation has areas the server needs to access. These are > > shared by NFS. > > This is a bad idea,
The simpleton in me thinks that it's a bad system rather than a bad idea. After all, it worked with smbfs, why shouldn't nfs work without crashing? > if the server needs read access to files on the WS > then just copy them across, if it needs write access, then shift the data > you need onto one of the NFS mounts. The data in question is my home directory on the workstation. Kinda impractical to have that on the server. I can't just copy it because the software on the server is watching for the update time on certain files. > Using "rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft" as the mount options in /etc/fstab will > help too. What's the rsize/wsize do? Patrick also suggested the 'soft' bit, which I've now put in. > > Is there a solution to this problem, other than drinking much beer? > > Shift the wall. :) I was considering drinking schnaps instead :) Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \
