Re: NFS & rebooting
From: Marcin Jessa (lists_at_yazzy.org)
Date: 10/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:50:16 +0000 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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