> I have my machine setup to mount a disk on another (Debian) linux machine.
> Unfortunately when I was rebooting my system, the other machine didn't
> want to serve me, so my machine hung with:
>
> NFS server ottifant not responding, still trying.
>
>
> Now the obvious solution is to fix up the other machine, but the thing
> which worried me most was the fact that the attempt to nfs mount didn't
> timeout. Which means that my system is entirely dependent on the other
> system in order to boot.
>
> Why is this so?
I am guessing that something is probably trying to access a file on the
NFS mounted drive. You could try using the soft option when mounting it.
>From the nfs man page:
soft If an NFS file operation has a major time
out then report an I/O error to the calling
program. The default is to continue retry
ing NFS file operations indefinitely.
Alternatively, use amd to automount the drive as necessary. That works
really nicely.
Steve
