Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jon Tombs <> | Subject | Re: NFS timeouts? NFS is not supposed to time out. | Date | Sat, 8 Jun 1996 19:00:30 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Simon Karpen said: > > I have wuarchive NFS-mounted via a 14.4 modem and a PPP connection. > It often takes several attempts to access a file because of NFS timeouts. > It is mounted with the options: ro,bg,intr,soft,noexec,nosuid,noauto,user ^^^^ > >From my experience with SunOS, NFS mounted filesystems are not supposed
The option soft is there to give this behaviour, soft means time out and return an error when you get no response in a given time. Either mount the filesystem hard, or change the option timeo to something more reasonable for such a filesystem. (and check linux honours the timeo option :-).
-- Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
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