Unix administration - Re: xxxx unix: NFS server xxxx not responding still trying

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Re: xxxx unix: NFS server xxxx not responding still trying

Doug Freyburger

2005-10-26, 6:02 pm

Michael Vilain wrote:
> blackdog wrote:
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> fix your flakey network.

Check. Common stuff like incorrect full/half duplex
or switching MTU across a router.

On the chance this is a remote mount across a WAN,
consider a caching engine like the ones from Cisco
or look at the NFS version of the mount man page
for options proto (you want TCP if you're having
problems), timeo (use a higher number for a slower
connection), and whatever others seem appropriate.

Wrong answer: Switching from hard to soft mounts
switches from retries to failures.