Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS write problems (fwd) | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:40:45 -0500 | From | Theo Van Dinter <> |
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| 'soft', but I think they did not. Perhaps the stalls are caused by the | same problem as the I/O-errors when mounting 'soft'?)
there are two types of NFS error - minor and major. soft and hard mounts deal with the errors differently. both mount types handle a minor error in the same way, accept the error, increase the 'minor error' count, and do a backoff resending the request at longer and longer intervals until the 'minor error' count is large enough (settable through timeo= and retrans=) when a major error occurs. At this point, a soft mount will return an I/O error and abort. A hard mount will keep going and report and 'nfs: server <host> not responding, still trying'.
| Perhaps I have to tune the retrans settings when mounting 'soft'...
you could, although that's more of a bandage than a fix.
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