Hi,
I have a bunch of DUNIX systems of which three are nfs servers.
I have set them up such that when a non-critical system crashes (serving
data disk as opposed to mail, user home directory and /usr/local), the others
continue without hanging. Yesterday, we had a power outage. When I
booted my nfs servers, they all booted until they got to the NFS part.
They all stalled until the last of my three servers started up NFS and then
they all booted up together. The messages on the waiting systems were:
NFS Portmap: RPC: Portmapper failure - RPC: Timed out
Is this how it is suppose to work? If one of my non-critical
nfs servers could not be booted for what ever reason, would I have to
change the fstab files prior to booting the other nfs servers? Or is
there a way around this behavior?
DUNIX versions of my nfs servers:
2 systems at V3.2 214
1 system at v2.0 240
Thank you,
Diane Ibaraki
University of Hawaii
High Energy Physics Group
Received on Wed Dec 06 1995 - 20:27:12 NZDT