Re: NFS problems

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a NetBSD 4.0 NFS server and a few clients (NetBSD 4.0 and older).
> When the server is rebooted, the clients get very unhappy.
>
> A client has /home on the NFS server,  I rebooted the server and now the
> client can no longer access /home.  I have had tcpdump running on the
> client for some 20 minutes and there are _no_ NFS packets passing between
> the client and the server, even when I try to access /home.
>
> All processes accessing /home are stuck, waiting at vnlock.
>
> fstab looks like this:
>
> server:/home /home nfs rw,-X,-i,-b,-s,-C 0 0
>
> Other NFS partitions have the same mount options and they work ok
> (but I think /home might be the only partition that was accessed
> while the server was down).
>
> I think NFS has always has its problems when the server is rebooted,
> but I don't think it was this bad some 10 years ago.  Or maybe some
> of the options in my fstab is causing this.  Anyway, I would think
> the NFS client should be trying to talk to the server every now and
> then to see if it's back up - now _nothing_ is happening.  Syslog
> says "not responding" twice (24 minutes ago), then nothing.
>


Try mounting with -s -i or -osoft,intr