Re: NFS & rebooting

From: Marcin Jessa (lists_at_yazzy.org)
Date: 10/29/05

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To: Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com>

    On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:41:01 -0400
    Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com> wrote:

    > All,
    Hi Troy.

    > A long time ago (3.x days?), whenver I rebooted an NFS server, all
    > the client machines with mounted filesystems would completely freak
    > out. I'm not talking about application errors, but that the nfs
    > mounts were totally unresponsive. I couldn't unmount the filesystems
    > and I couldn't remount them, the only thing I could do, was to force
    > a reboot on the client boxes, after which, they would come up and
    > mount their filesystems without issue.
    >
    > I'm looking again, at using NFS for my mail server setup, but need to
    > know what the ramifications are if I need to reboot the NFS server,
    > or if it's forced to reboot without the clients first dismounting any
    > filesystems.
     
    A whole lot has changed since the 3.x times.
    >From my experience, the clients (FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux) were fully
    responsive and could reach the NFS mounts when the NFS server came back
    up after reboot.

    Cheers,
    Marcin
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