https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707898 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707898#c3 Neil Brown <nfbrown@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|nfbrown@suse.com | --- Comment #3 from Neil Brown <nfbrown@suse.com> 2011-10-10 00:18:29 UTC --- There are a few different issues here. Firstly it is not clear to me that an NFS mount request should time out particularly quickly. The fact that you list a mountpoint in /etc/fstab suggests that you need that filesystem mounted for successful operation, so there might be no point continuing if it is not mounted. If you don't really need the filesystem but would just like it there if possible, then the correct way to request that is to use the "bg" mount option, or to use an automounter. So it probably makes sense fort YaST to suggest, or at least allow, the 'bg' option to be set for mountpoints that are created -- or perferably it should configure an automounter and use that for NFS. That said, there is a bug in the kernel relating to NFSv4 mounts that I haven't managed to get to the bottom of yet. If the server that is not responding is on a different subnet, the ICMP error message which comes back to say "cannot get there from here" gets ignored and we get a long timeout. Also NFSv4 mounts don't seem to reduce the timeout when 'bg' is set. However as you are not using V4 you can avoid this by explicitly requesting 'v3'. So you should be able to reduce the timeout significantly by specifying options "bg,vers=3". Also I think 11.4 has some better timeouts than 11.3, so if changing the options doesn't help, an upgrade might. YaST could help by allowing, or even encouraging, the 'bg' option to be specified (if it doesn't already) and also explicitly setting the NFS version to be used. Bug #679059 covers the issues that NFSv4 mounts don't respond to ENETUNREACH properly, though I'm not sure if this is the case here. If you still have problems and want more analysis, please run mount with "-v" and report the output, and also use "tcpdump -w /tmp/somefile -s 0 host $SERVERIP" to collect a network trace, and attach that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.