<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Are you using the "soft" parameter on your NFS mount?</span></font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-client-config-options.html</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">hard or soft — Specifies whether the program using a file via an NFS connection should stop and wait (hard) for the server to come back online, if the host serving the exported file system is unavailable, or if it should report an error (soft).</font></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If soft is specified, the user can set an additional timeo=<value> option, where <value> specifies the number of seconds to pass before the error is reported.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span name="x"></span>--<br>Scott Plante <br>404-873-0058 x104<br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><b>From: </b>"Raj Wurttemberg via Ale" <ale@ale.org><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 27, 2018 9:12:16 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] Stale NFS mounts - Switch to iSCSI?<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Many of our client systems share data via NFS (v3) and everything works fine except when the server with the NFS export is rebooted, which happens regularly due to OS patching (not my decision). The systems that have the NFS export mounted can no longer do even a simple ‘ls’, they just hang. Unmounting and remounting the NFS export or rebooting the client system does resolve the issue, but I was curious if I switched to iSCSI if I would experience the same issue? I know the easy answer is to mount the NFS directly off the SAN (EMC) but I was told that the storage team would not create NFS exports for me. I was also looking at using autofs for the NFS mounts instead of putting them in the fstab file.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Just curious if anyone else had any advice.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal">/Raj</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>