On Friday 03 June 2005 3:48 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
But that sure is what it just did to me. I've been trying to get nfsd on OS/2 to work because Samba 3 is useless with OS/2. I finally succeeded in figuring out how to configure OS/2 so mount -t nfs would work with them on Linux. I had succeeded in mounting on Mandrake 2005, but the mount failed to actually allow any normal access like cd or ls, so I tried on SuSE 8.2. It too claimed it had successfully mounted, but my very first attempt to access the mount dir (from tty1) produced a total lockup, something I don't remember ever seeing happen on any Linux version. (Ctrl)-Alt-F[1-6] fails to produce any response whatsoever. :-(
This is the fstab entry used: eCS:J /nfs/eCS/J nfs noauto,ro,nosuid,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
Anyone know if this is some bug that never got fixed in the 8.2 nfs client? Just some general comments on NFS, Unix and Linux WRT: lockups A system can appear to lockup in a GUI when an application badly behaves, and sometimes, (Ctrl)-Alt-F[1-6] appear not to work. In reality, they work, but may take a very long time. I sometimes will use ssh to get into my system from another box.
But, there are sometimes when you try to access an NFS directory and Linux
(or Unix) will appear to be locked up. It should eventually time out.
The only suggestion I might have is to add async to your mount options:
eCS:J /nfs/eCS/J nfs noauto,ro,nosuid,soft,async,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
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Jerry Feldman