Steven M. Wilson wrote:
That could very well be the problem I'm having since I just tried a df
on the client system and it ground to a halt trying to located NFS
mounts. We rely heavily on NFS here so I'll need to figure out how to
get around this problem in the future. Thanks for the info.
Mount your non-critical nfs filesystems with mount options "soft,intr"
instead of "hard,nointr" (or eventually "hard,intr") to avoid the blocking.
Yes, the man page says "intr" just causes a lot of trouble, but "hard"
mounts result in non-killable processes (unless you specify "intr" in
which case you can kill the process, but it will not timeout by itself).
And be very careful what you categorize "critical": a disk with software
packages even including amanda, is not critical in this sense; an nfs
mounted root partition is critical.
(Yes, the man page says "intr" just cause a lot of trouble, but "hard"
mounts result in non-killable processes. Be careful to put your
critical nfs shares on stable hard/software that does not need frequent
reboots.)
my 0.02 €
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