Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 8 Jun 1996 23:44:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: NFS timeouts? NFS is not supposed to time out. |
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On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Simon Karpen wrote:
> 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 > to time out. Is this a bug or a feature? I haven't found this in any of > the FAQs and if this is a bug, it really needs to be fixed before 2.0. >
They don't timeout is you mount them with the 'hard' option, they do with the 'soft' option, see man nfs for more (linux-kernel really isn't the place;)
> Simon Karpen > karpens@nando.net > Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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