[Sunhelp] Curious NFS mounting problem

[Media One]

Just a guess, but I think its the "hard" option
machine1:/export/machine1 - /mnt/machine1 nfs - yes rw,nosuid,hard,bg
Try this:
machine1:/export/machine1 - /mnt/machine1 nfs - yes rw,nosuid,soft,bg

Tony Alberti


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Shawn C Lander <shawn at eng.ufl.edu>
To: <sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 1:49 PM
Subject: [Sunhelp] Curious NFS mounting problem


> 
> I've got two Solaris 2.6 machines.  I'm NFS mounting some disks from
> machine1 to machine2.
> 
> The following is in machine1's /etc/dfs/dfstab
> 
> share -F nfs -o rw=machine2 /export/machine1
> 
> 
> The following is in machine2's /etc/vfstab:
> 
> machine1:/export/machine1 - /mnt/machine1 nfs - yes rw,nosuid,hard,bg
> 
> 
> If I take machine1 down for any reason and then bring it back up
> machine2 complains of stale NFS on /mnt/machine1.  I thought that
> with the options I was using it would remount it fine.  In order to
> get the disk to mount again I have to umount and mount the filesystem
> manually.
> 
> What am I missing?  Any suggestions on changing options or whatnot in
> order to get the filesystem to remount automatically on machine2 if
> machine1 goes down and comes back up?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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