[H-GEN] NFS timeout

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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David Jericho <davidj at pisoftware.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:17:56AM +1200, Jay wrote:
>> Is there a smarter way to find out if a network which provides NFS
>> shares is reachable, other than to way for the NFS timeout.
> Ping? It all involves timeouts anyway.

Wow.  There's a lot more to NFS than simple connectivity.  But it *is*
a hard problem, I suspect.

However, the following option I recently found in the mount manpage
might help (I suspect this is a bit of an XY problem and the original
poster really wants to have a machine which mounts NFS shares boot
faster if another host is down):

   -F (Used in conjunction with -a.)  Fork off a new incarnation of
      mount for each device.  This will do the mounts on different
      devices or different NFS servers in parallel.  This has the
      advantage that it is faster; also NFS timeouts go in parallel. A
      disadvantage is that the mounts are done in undefined order.
      Thus, you cannot use this option if you want to mount both /usr
      and /usr/spool.
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