if no NFS server clients are waiting..

[Bill Davidsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Michael Casey wrote:
>> the fstab entry is this
>>
>> vim /etc/fstab
>> 192.168.1.1:/mnt/share/ /home/user/Desktop/Share/ nfs
>> defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock 0 0
> 
> By default, NFS mounts are "hard" so if the server goes bye-bye the
> client will lock up until the server comes back.
> 
Generally both 'soft' and 'intr' can be used to allow the client to handle 
server issues. Neither is default, and you don't want to disable anything you 
can't run without.

> Try adding "soft,retrans=6" to the mount options:
> 
>     defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock,soft,retrans=6
> 
> See if that helps.  Oh, and you might want to try doing TCP rather than
> the default UDP (add "tcp" to the options).

??? Unless both wireshark and the man page are wrong, TCP has been the default 
for ages.

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