Hi!
We are using automounter on Tru64 5.0 with a configuration as shown below,
mounting multiple directories from multiple servers.
Now, sometimes it happens that one of the NFS servers goes down. When the
server comes back up, all shares mounted from that server are no longer
accessible under /auto.all, there are simply no entries for these shares.
If we were lucky and the shares mounted from that server were NOT accessed,
i.E. unmounted, at the time when the server went down, we can do "nfsmount
stop; nfsmount start" and all will be fine.
However, if they were accessed when the server went down, we are usually out
of luck. In certain occasions we can then kill all processes that want to
access those shares and then restart the automounter, but in most cases this
won't work and we must reboot the machine.
Is it god-given that you must reboot when your NFS-Server disappears, or c
an we do anything about this? We tried several NFs mount options, but were
not really content. Currentl ywe have what is shown below.
tobi_at_caracal(503):/etc> cat auto.master
/auto.all /etc/auto.all
/auto.osf1 /etc/auto.osf1
tobi_at_caracal(504):/etc> cat auto.osf1
local -suid,bg,hard,udp,intr,nfsv3 margay.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/local
tobi_at_caracal(506):/etc> cat auto.all
home -bg,hard,udp,intr,nfsv3,actimeo=0 tiger.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/home
mail -bg,hard,udp,nosuid,intr,nfsv3,actimeo=0 tiger.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/mail
data0 -bg,hard,udp,nosuid,intr,nfsv3 tiger.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/data0
data1 -bg,hard,udp,nosuid,intr,nfsv3 tiger.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/data1
share -bg,hard,udp,nosuid,intr,nfsv3 tiger.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/share
video -bg,hard,udp,nosuid,intr,nfsv3 margay.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/video
src -bg,hard,udp,nosuid,intr elk.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de:/mnt/src
Kind Regards,
Tobias Ernst.
Received on Tue Jul 03 2001 - 12:40:20 NZST