Hi, On Fri, 11.09.2009 at 22:28:43 +0200, Maurice Janssen <maur...@z74.net> wrote: > Will the master shutdown normally, or will it stall while trying to > umount the NFS share? The slaves will shutdown first, so when the > master goes down, the NFS server won't be responding.
man mount_nfs You can mount NFS shares soft. This means that it becomes less reliable for you, but your clients won't hang if you shut down your NFS server first. Another option could be to somehow notify your NFS clients, so they know that they need to unmount the NFS shares. Kind regards, --Toni++