Client recovery of NFS mount

[Tom Rosenfeld]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 12 בMay 2010 13:55:51 Ehud Karni wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:28:13 Tom Rosenfeld wrote:
> > > Is there a way in RHEL 5 for NFS clients to recover automatically after
> a
> > > server reboot?
> >
> > There is the "hard" (and "intr" that can go with it) option for NFS
> mounts:
> > ...
>
> Beside the very valid and good advice Ehud just gave, let me add another
> one.
> Move to NFS4 (both server and clients of course). I have done it some 2
> years
> ago and it pays big time in reliability (also performance, but that's less
> noticable in my (low-volume) case).
>
>
Thanks guys. I also use "hard, intr" and it usually works fine, but not
always. :-(
I have read that NFS4 is better in this respect, but never looked into it.
If both my client and server support NFS4 is it just a matter of adding it
as mount option?

Thanks,
-tom
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