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Can someone explain to me what the consequences are for using
the 'bg' option when mounting an nfs file system? From the mount_nfs(1m)
man page:

               bg  | fg  If the first attempt fails, retry in the
                         background,  or,  in the foreground. The
                         default is fg .

Does this only apply to the first mount attempt? What happens if
the server goes away for a while?

I am having intermittent problems with binaries that are mounted
on a file system with these mount options that I am tempted to
attribute to the server dying (they seem to be correlated in time).
When the errors start on the client, they persist until the client
is rebooted.  (I haven't tried to just remount the file system.)
Does anyoe have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

        Peter

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Peter Wittich
Dept. of Physics, U.Penn        There's no small talk on walkie-talkies.

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Quote:>I am having intermittent problems with binaries that are mounted
>on a file system with these mount options that I am tempted to
>attribute to the server dying (they seem to be correlated in time).
>When the errors start on the client, they persist until the client
>is rebooted.  (I haven't tried to just remount the file system.)
>Does anyoe have any ideas?

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Quote:>>attribute to the server dying (they seem to be correlated in time).
>>When the errors start on the client, they persist until the client
>>is rebooted.  (I haven't tried to just remount the file system.)
>>Does anyoe have any ideas?
> Hm, you're not using soft mounts by chance?

/usr/local on server:/pc/usr/local read/write/setuid/noquota/bg/remote on Thu Mar 23 12:15:14 2000

the mounting is done from a Sparc Solaris machine (server) to a Solaris x86
machine (client), though....

        Peter

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Peter Wittich
Dept. of Physics, U.Penn        There's no small talk on walkie-talkies.

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