Re: NFS problems

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

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:53 AM, matthew sporleder 
<msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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
>

Oh, sorry.  You already had those.  :)  Sorry for the noise.