Todd Lyons wrote: > From my man page: > > Also the following Boolean options, possibly preceded by no are > recognized: bg, fg, soft, hard, intr, posix, cto, ac, tcp, udp, > lock. For details, see nfs(5). > > Especially useful options include > > rsize=8192,wsize=8192 This will make your nfs connection faster > than with the default buffer size of 4096. (NFSv2 does not work with > larger values of rsize and wsize.) > > hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file > system will hang when the server crashes. The process cannot be > interrupted or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS > server is back online the program will continue undisturbed from where > it was. This is probably what you want. > > soft This option allows the kernel to time out if the nfs > server is not responding for some time. The time can be specified > with timeo=time. This option might be useful if your nfs server > sometimes doesn't respond or will be rebooted while some process tries > to get a file from the server. Usually it just causes lots of > trouble.
Yes, but it took me a LONG time to find them in man mount, because (I discover - thanks!) they only apply to the network file system (nfs). I suppose I should apologise, but some kind of find capabilty on man pages would have helped... I would say that 'hard' is the default which means that nfs mounts will not reliably umount on shutdown, causing indefinite hangs since 7.2 (still a problem in 9.0). I will try 'intr' on these mounts. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
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