NFS mount timeout value

[David Meade]

Greetings,

We were doing some work on our HP-UX 11.23 systems over the past weekend and had some issues with our NFS systems. The problem is that explicit mounts (ie. mount -a) and implicit automounts (from inside of swinstall) took forever to report back that the NFS server wasn't available.

Is there a option that controls how long a mount or automount waits before reporting failure?

David

[Phillip Thayer]

I think that the NFS timeout is set by the NFS Server. Was the HP-UX the NFS Server or the remote side?

Phil

[David Meade]

Phillip,

Both the server and client are HP-UX.

David

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can use the -o soft and intr mount options but you should fully understand the consequences of these mount option. Man mount_nfs for details. You can also look at the timeo and retrans settings as well.

[Albert_31]

hello david,

check the man page of mount_nfs for the options available with mounting NFS filesystems.

timeo/soft/intr/nointr are some pointers

regards

albert

[David Meade]

Thanks for all you help.