Re: Strange behaviour with NFS
Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Tue, 25 Jul 1995 09:07:59 +0100 (BST)
> It's funny! The kernel notices that the nfs-server is unreachable,
> printk's his messages ("tapiola kernel: NFS max timeout reached on
> finlandia") but then? It tries again, several times. Somewhen it
> stops, dunno why.
It will try forever,
>
> I would recommend to return some common error code to let user
> programs correctly abort.
I would recommend reading some NFS documentation 8). You want to set the
soft option (return EIO on a timeout) and possibly adjust the timeouts to
suit.
Alan