Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Well said - in my bad old solaris 2.6 days we used automounter maps to get round the problem of a "downed" NFS server hanging the solaris clients. There's autofs for Linux, but I'm not sure how robust it is - any feedback anyone?
Of course, there is the argument that when you have all your files on a central NFS server, if it hangs you couldn't possibly do anything useful with the clients anyway, but I think that's a cop-out. You'd like the NFS server to re-establish connections to the clients once it's back up, but I guess that's in the realms of kernel software development and other scary stuff and the like ;)
As I recall, a soft mount is supposed to resolve that problem. Then again, we're not talking Windows servers here, so there'd not likely be many server failures. ;-)