How to change automount to hard nfs

[Platinum]

As I know, by default, the type of automount mount is soft nfs mount. For some reason, I want to change it to hard nfs mount. Is that possible? and how to make it?

Thx!

[Karthik S S]

It is not possible to make it hard nfs mount as it defeats the purpose of using the automounter. However you can increase the timeout calue for unmounts using,

automount -f master_file -t time_in_seconds -v

-Karthik S S

[Mark Grant]

I could have sworn that the default was for a hard NFS mount and you had to mount it soft with "-soft".

[cl_5]

Hi

You can mount it hard by typing your NFS Filesystem in /etc/fstab.
But take care about this, because if it goes something wrong with NFS your client system could be hang up or getting unstable.

HTH
cl

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

There are two types of maps within automount - direct and indirect. Direct can be somewhat correlated to hardmount and indirect is like softmount. So, it depends on how your auto* files are setup.

If you are talking about hardmount and soft mount under NFS, then hardmount is something you do like "mount server:/exported_dir /local_dir". Hardmounts won't disappear upon inactivity. Softmounts do.

Add NFS mounts to your /etc/fstab and disable AUTOMOUNT from /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf.

-Sri

[Seth Parker]

CL raises a good point. Several years ago, we had an NFS mount in our /etc/fstab and if the NFS share wasn't available at boot time, the system would hang. Life may be different now, as this was on HP-UX 10.20, but it could still be an issue.

Regards,
Seth