Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.

I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that
describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file.

That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get you a relatively stateless NFS
connection.

Personally, I don't trust amd(8). It's not clear to me that it's any smarter
than I am regarding hung NFS file servers.

I've had some success using 'umount -f' to forcibly umount NFS filesystems,
from the client side, in the past.

However, NFS, while stateless in intent, is really not a good
infrastructural element for a plug-and-play network. Plugging in is easy;
unplugging may require an explicit shutdown to properly deallocate
resources.

Hope this is helpful ...


-- richard



lewiz wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Anybody know about using NFS with laptops.  I want to be able to pick
> up and go with my laptop -- problem is I seem unable to umount any NFS
> filesystems when the NFS server is unavailable.
>
>   The problem is -- I can't run many regular utilities like df without
> it getting stuck when the NFS mount is unavailable.  I've tried the soft
> option but that doesn't seem to make any difference.  Anybody with any
> good ideas on how best to cope with this situation?
>
> -lewiz.
>
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