Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x

[Chris Friesen]

Daniel Egger wrote:

> Great you want to help here. So I've a system which is NFS root using a
> 3c940 gigabit onboard NIC on kernel 2.6.5 and which is dead fish in the
> water somewhere in between 10 seconds and 5 minutes after boot using
> NFS over UDP. The last thing I see are 3 or 4 messages of the type:

If this is an issue, it might make sense to have root be a tmpfs 
filesystem, and then have specific network mounts.  Note--don't make 
"/var/log" network mounted, various apps default to trying to check for 
files there--if the server goes away, you can't log in/out.

Chris
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