From: Jonathan Voigt (jvoigt@wysdom.com)
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 09:25:13 EDT
Message: 4
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:39:46 +0800
From: "Jim Dirstein" <jim@td.iinet.net.au>
Subject: NFS issues between Solaris and Linux
To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Cc: linuxmanagers@linuxmanagers.org
Message-ID: <FIEOLMEEKNBJCFDKBBAICEFDCBAA.jim@td.iinet.net.au>
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G'day all,
I have five unix workstations (2.8) and two linux workstations which all
write to a raided fileserver which is also running Linux (redhat 7). NFS
is working fine for the most part. Recently, on separate occasions, we
have had severe and unexpected power failure which has caused two or
more of the SUN workstations to crash. Unfortunately, one of the UPS's
we where using also failed which resulted in the crash. When we bring
the systems back up some of the workstations are unable to mount the
file server thru (v)fstab or using the mount command. During this time
any workstation rebooted also fails to connect to the fileserver.
The really puzzling part is that in time (hours or days) we eventually
are able to successfully mount onto the fileserver. Apart from being an
frustrating inconvenience, intermittent problems like this drive me to
drink (more).
To me it appears that when the workstations crash, some residual process
is still running on the Linux fileserver, which while running does not
allow all workstations to reconnect. However, I am not sure which
processes to look at pr how to remedy.
Any advice as to what I might be able to modify on the Linux server or
workstations would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Jim Dirstein
--->
Hi,
Maybe the mount daemon is botched on the NFS server, and that is why
when the Solaris boxes, once rebooted cannot re-connect to the NFS box.
Try restarting NFS (mountd, nfsd) on the NFS server and see if they can
mount successfully.
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