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On 09/24/2012 10:18 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, Just want to check something with those much more |
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> knowledgeable that I am. I have a media computer which exports the |
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> media as nfs4 shares. My workstation in turn mounts these - it's the |
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> only device that does this. If the media device is not on, and |
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> exporting these shares, the workstation gets caught up in the boot |
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> process, timing out and retrying, trying to find the nonexistant nfs |
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> shares, which takes ages. |
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> Is the correct things to fiddle to try and tune this the timeo and |
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> retrans variables in fstab? I want it to time out after 10 seconds |
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> and no retries. I'm thinking the mount entries become: |
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> ... ... ... 192.168.14.1:/movies /mnt/movies nfs4 |
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> rw,timeo=100,retrans=0 0 0 ... ... ... |
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I find that I had to use actimeo=n instead of just timeo because (apparently) |
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there are several different timers involved in nfs mounting. (man 5 nfs) |
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