[gentoo-user] NFS issues.

[Andrew MacKenzie]

NFS drives me nuts...

I'm mounting a number of NFSv3 directories using the following mount
options:
async,soft,timeo=10,intr,noatime,rsize=8196,wsize=8196

When I shutdown a client Gentoo seems to shutdown the network before and
without unmounting the NFS filesystems.  Later Gentoo tries to unmount
remote filesystems.

This causes NFS to try what seems like forever to reconnect with the
remote file server.

Two questions:
How do I fix the shutdown sequence to unmount NFS drives before the network
is shutdown?

How do I tell NFS to simply give-up after X attempts (for other times when
the NFS server simply may not be there anymore and I *just want the
friggin' computer to shudown*)?

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Re: [gentoo-user] NFS issues.

[Roy Wright]

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Andrew MacKenzie wrote:


Two questions:
How do I fix the shutdown sequence to unmount NFS drives before the  
network

is shutdown?

How do I tell NFS to simply give-up after X attempts (for other  
times when

the NFS server simply may not be there anymore and I *just want the
friggin' computer to shudown*)?



verify that both your nfs and net service are at the same run level:

royw-gentoo etc # rc-update show | grep nfs
  nfs | default
royw-gentoo etc # rc-update show | grep net
 net.eth2 | default
 netmount | default
local |  nonetwork  default
   net.lo |boot

Also you might consider using autofs.  I have two gentoo and one kubuntu
systems all cross sharing nfs mounts using nfs without any issues.

HTH,
Roy