From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 12:46:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DA037B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2E943EB2 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbsd@pacbell.net) Received: from atlas ([64.165.200.201]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.6 (built Oct 18 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6R004C5OADSW@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:44:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:44:37 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= Subject: Re: NFS - what troubles to expect ? In-reply-to: <20021206215223.R77087-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> X-X-Sender: mikko@atlas.home To: Josh Brooks Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20021207123917.G321-100000@atlas.home> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Josh Brooks wrote: > > Helol, > > I have used NFS on sun/solaris systems for many years, and the one big > headache that comes to mind is how, if the server is down, and the client > has an automount on boot, the client will hang forever (basically forever) > trying to mount from the down NFS server. > > Does this behavior exist in the FreeBSD world ? What other related > behavior can I expect if I have about 10 servers that are all _clients_ > for an 11th NFS server, and that NFS server goes down ? Will the > performance on the clients go down when the NFS server disappears ? > > Will they too, like solaris systems, hang forever on boot when the nfs > server they automount is not present ? It should be configurable. From the mount_nfs(8) man page: By default, mount_nfs keeps retrying until the mount succeeds. This behaviour is intended for filesystems listed in fstab(5) that are critical to the boot process. For non-critical filesystems, the -b and -R flags provide mechanisms to prevent the boot process from hanging if the server is unavailable. Read the rest at . If you are using amd(8) to auto mount, options should be tweakable in amd.conf. FreeBSD does not have an exact equivalent to the Solaris automounter. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message