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gmcfadden2002@yahoo.com

2006-02-06, 5:55 pm



Hi,

I am using autofs to mount home directories and /var/spool/mail

The side mounting the NFS partition will hang forever if I pull the
ethernet cable.

I am using the following:

/etc/auto.home :
* -fstype=nfs,rw,suid,soft,intr server:/home/&

/etc/auto/.mail
mial -fstype=nfs,rw,suid,soft,intr server:/var/spool/mail


This seems to be correct.

I am using OpenLDAP for authentication and have version 4.1.3-131 of
/usr/sbin/automount/

anyone come across this before?


Thanks

Gord

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

2006-02-07, 2:49 am

gmcfadden2002@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using autofs to mount home directories and /var/spool/mail
>
> The side mounting the NFS partition will hang forever if I pull the
> ethernet cable.
>
> I am using the following:
>
> /etc/auto.home :
> * -fstype=nfs,rw,suid,soft,intr server:/home/&
>
> /etc/auto/.mail
> mial -fstype=nfs,rw,suid,soft,intr server:/var/spool/mail
>
>
> This seems to be correct.
>
> I am using OpenLDAP for authentication and have version 4.1.3-131 of
> /usr/sbin/automount/
>
> anyone come across this before?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Gord
>

Gord,


This a know error of NFS. Even though soft should time out, it does not
always do that.

So it is not autofs, but NFS in general. So test your NFS share outside
autofs to check if a soft mount times out as desired.


Kind regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra
gmcfadden2002@yahoo.com

2006-02-07, 6:02 pm



Is there any known work around? hard,intr?
Can I upgrade my version of NFS?

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

2006-02-08, 7:49 am

gmcfadden2002@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Is there any known work around? hard,intr?
> Can I upgrade my version of NFS?


G McFadden,


I do not know of a workaround using NFS. Hard makes it even worse.


Kind regards,


Jan Gerrit

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