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Re: Bad uptime on lightly loaded server


On 29 Jan 2007, at 19:43, email@hidden wrote:

On Jan 29, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Josh Budde wrote:

Check the NFS server
Automount might be trying to restore the nfs share connection and
if the
connection is broken you might see automount flipping out.
NFS is a real pain in the butt, you might want to think about
moving away
from it.


With our NAS, there isn't really another decent way to go.  I'm not
really sure why automount is caring about it anyways.  It's mounted
manually via the command line with mount_nfs.  What's the best place
to look for mounts?

/etc/fstab is nonexistant
I don't see anything related to nfs in WM

The mounts are all define in NetInfo. Apple still uses NetInfo for all local stuff - including mounts. You CAN use /etc/fstab, but this is for the boot process and not for normal mounts.

Am I unreasonable to assume that osx is able to hang onto a mount?
Should I be mounting it with automount instead of mount_nfs?

What options are you using? If you can, background the mount and mount interruptably so you can control-C processes on a non- functioning mount. Of course, this is not very good for home dirs, but sometimes it just helps.

If properly entered, nfs shares are automatically mounted when defined in NetInfo. It's been a long time since I last did that, though, and in the meantime I use a simple script which is placed in the StartupItems (I know, I know, should move to launchd ...).

Robert


Departement Informatik FGB tel +41 (0)61 267 14 66
Universität Basel fax. +41 (0)61 267 14 61
Robert Frank
Klingelbergstrasse 50 email@hidden
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland http:// www.informatik.unibas.ch/personen/frank_r.html



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