On 9/6/07, Alexander Hall  wrote:

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> Per-Erik Persson wrote:

> > When the nfs server gets disconnected the filesystem dissapears, I can

> > live with that. After all networks go down now and then.

> >

> > But unfortunatley the location where the directory was mounted will be

> > impossible to list, even after the server is up again.

> > Trying to unmount ot mount the directory will also fail and just freeze

> > the console.

> > df dousn't work either.

> >

> > I have tried to kill mountd, nfsd and rpc.lockd and to empty

> > /var/db/mountdbtab and bring the daemons up again but still the problem

> > persists.

> > Tcpdump tells me that the machines doesn't even try to reconnect the

> > lost connection.

> >

> > The last opton is to reboot, but there must be a better solution to a

> > busy server!

> >

> >

> > Would amd solve this problem instead of mounting the shares in fstab ?

>

> I'm also wondering about this, so if anyone has more information about

> any of these issues, I'd be glad to hear it, too.

>

>

Try NFS over UDP.
Greg

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