Hi all, A week ago I sent this mail to the NFS list asking for help. I haven't received any feedback yet so I thought I should ask you guys..
Any help highly appreciated. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm experiencing some problems with a cluster setup. The cluster is set up > in a way that you have a frontend machine configured as a masquerading > gateway and all the compute nodes behind it on a private network (i.e the > frontend has two network interfaces). User home directories and also other > data directories which should be available to the cluster (i.e statically > mounted in the same location on both frontend and nodes) are located on > external NFS servers (IRIX and Linux servers). This seems to work fine > when the cluster is in use, but if the cluster is idle for some time (e.g > over night), the NFS directories has become unavailable and trying to > reboot the frontend results in a complete hang when it tries to unmount > the NFS directories (it hangs in a fuser command). The frontend and all > the nodes are running RedHat 7.2, but with a stock 2.4.18 kernel (plus > Trond's seekdir patch, thanks for the help BTW). > > Ideas anyone ? > Thanks, -- Steffen Persvold | Scalable Linux Systems | Try out the world's best mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.scali.com | performing MPI implementation: Tel: (+47) 2262 8950 | Olaf Helsets vei 6 | - ScaMPI 1.13.8 - Fax: (+47) 2262 8951 | N0621 Oslo, NORWAY | >320MBytes/s and <4uS latency
