NFS

[Nago]

hELLO HOUSE,

I got this error message from my NFS Client:
NFS server myhost not responding still trying...
i have restarted the NFS client and yet the NFS is not mounted, What could be wrong? I am at work now and need to continue with my asignment. Please help.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Nago,

Have you

1) Verified that the NFS server is up & reachable?
2) Verified that it has the dir properly exported?
3) Tried to unmount it on the client & remount it?
4) Unexported (exportfs -u /export/dir) & re-exported (exportfs -a)?
4) Stopped the NFS server on the server & restarted?

Rgds,
Jeff

[Nago]

while i was sending the message earlier, i was restarting my NFS server. after which i issued mount -a on the NFS client.
everything is ok again but my concern is why would it fail in the first place?
thanks for the response. kindly give me an answer.

[Jeff Schussele]

Well, it could have been one of several things...

1) Network was saturated or dropped for a period.
2) NFS server was being hammered either in it's CPU, disk or network.
3) ditto for the client
4) Someone unexported the dir on the server.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Nago]

thanks for your response.
i am still having some problems.
when i try to export oracle data from the NFS client file system, i get the following error;
no such device,

About to export specified tables via Conventional Path ...
. . exporting table ACTB_HISTORYNo such device or address

EXP-00002: error in writing to export file
EXP-00002: error in writing to export fileerror closing export file
EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully002>