[H-GEN] NFS timeout

[David Jericho]

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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:01:41PM -0400, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> Wow.  There's a lot more to NFS than simple connectivity.  But it *is*
> a hard problem, I suspect.

I don't disagree at all. My initial interpretation of the question was
simply that of a laptop which mounts a NFS share if it's on one network,
and not of another.

> 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):

NFS doesn't work very well in a clustered environment. It's messy, and
can be quite problematic. 

If redundancy is whats required, some more information would be needed
as to what the purpose of the mount is, and the data stored within.

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software

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