dieter wrote:
I could only find in the mount man page an option for setting the timeout when using the option soft:
This option allows the kernel to time out if the nfs server is not responding for some time. The time can be specified with timeo=time. This option might be useful if your nfs server sometimes doesn't respond or will be rebooted while some pro cess tries to get a file from the server. Usually it just causes lots of trouble.
It seems that the descriptions of "soft" and "timeo" in the man pages for mount and nfs are quite different. The nfs man page refers to major timeouts and hard mounting without defining them, and seems to be saying that "timeo" controls the interval of minor timeouts. The mount man page seems to imply that "timeo" provides much more direct control than that. I'm having a hard time figuring out what the timeout rules really are and how "soft" and "timeo" control them. Paul