On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Brett Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> At home, my main desktop has the biggest hd in the house and I've >> shared it out through NFS. It's handy and easy to work with, until I >> leave the house. I don't mind losing access to the files enough to >> set up a VPN, but my local NFS client has a tantrum when anything even >> thinks about the mounted files. For instance, the df command will >> hang and I can't view the "Storage Media" page in Dolphin to manage >> other attached devices. >> >> As long as I remember to umount the remote share before I leave the >> house, there are no problems. Unfortunately, I don't often remember. >> What I do remember is to put the laptop to sleep before leaving. I >> think the best way to fix this would be to have the computer umount >> any remote shares as part of the suspend or hibernate process. Then, >> if I can have fries with that, I'd love to have it realize if it's at >> home or not when it wakes up and mount anything appropriate. Maybe >> based on the ip address that it gets, based on location. >> >> Am I doing this the hard way? How do others manage network shares >> with their portables? I've tried asking Google, but I haven't had >> much luck. Any suggestions? > > Depending on the distro you are using there may be scripts that run > or can be run on sleep and wake that you could add your unmount or > mount commands to. The unmount would probably be pretty easy, the > logic to check for location on wake may be a little harder, but you > could just put the mount command in and let it fail if the NFS server > isn't available. Another option would be to switch from NFS to samba > which is deals with loosing connections much better than NFS. The > samba option may be easier than trying to figure if your distro > supports or has sleep and wake scripts and then getting the unmount > and mount to work, it's the route I would take. > > Brett > > > >
what about adding the "intr" option to the nfs mount? according to : http://tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-nfs.mountd.html "intr : Allow signals to interrupt an NFS call. Useful for aborting when the server doesn't respond." I use this on my nfs mounts (full opts are "hard,intr,rw" in my fstab) when I take the server down or unplug the switch, I havent gotten any hangs resulting from a lost mount -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we choose to scoop. Janet Long - "Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
