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chomwitt

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Registered: 2019-09-24

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nfs client timeo option not working

I want my devuan pc running an nfs client to be flexible in case the nfs server is not available .
By flexible i mean be able to bootup with no delays and my desktop file manager to work with
no hungups.

With my  (client)/etc/fstab
192.168.1.90:/home/chomwitt/NFSExport   /nfs/general   nfs   defaults,timeo=900,retrans=5,_netdev       0 0
my client will seemingly freeze at booting at the line:
starting nfs utilities : imapd, idmapd
and file managers freeze also in my desktop.

I tried in (client)/etc/fstab :
192.168.1.90:/home/chomwitt/NFSExport   /nfs/general   nfs   soft,timeo=30,retrans=5,  0 0
But again the client wont start (i mean booting my devuan pc) for many minutes as in my original settup

My latest try is:
192.168.1.76:/home/chomwitt/NFSExport   /nfs/general   nfs   soft,timeo=3   0  0
was better but still takes a minute.

My latest try is:
192.168.1.76:/home/chomwitt/NFSExport   /nfs/general   nfs   soft,retrans=1,retry=0,timeo=1   0  0
worked ok.
I found that on here

Unfortunately although i ve read the nfs man page i cant say that helped me.
For example timeo=30 should amount to 3 sec and not a minute that i experience.

Last edited by chomwitt (2024-11-19 15:28:05)

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,486  

Re: nfs client timeo option not working

Use autofs on the client instead of an fstab entry.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6561

chomwitt

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Registered: 2019-09-24

Posts: 130  

Re: nfs client timeo option not working

fsmithred thanks for pointing towards autofs.  I have started experimenting with it:

# nano /etc/auto.master
/nfs /etc/auto.nfs

and

# nano /etc/auto.nfs
filestore    192.168.1.70:/home/chomwitt/NFSExport

I also added a newline at the end of both file due to a related hint in the archwiki page.

$ /etc/init.d/autofs status
automount is running.

But i can not  access from directory /nfs/filestore my remote files.

How do i troubleshoot that?
I found showmount command and it can find my remote nfs share.

$ sudo showmount -e 192.168.1.70
Export list for 192.168.1.70:
/home/chomwitt/NFSExport 192.168.1.73

ok. it worked. But no 'filestore' directory is created . But when in my filemanager (thunar) i entered /nfs/filestore my remote files appeared!

Last edited by chomwitt (Today 11:47:43)

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: nfs client timeo option not working

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I always make a symlink so that the mount appears in my home directory.
Something like this. The link does not need to have the same name as the mount.

ln -s /nfs/fileshare  /home/chomwitt/fileshare