[mythtv-users] Network storage fault tolerance (was Re: Myth autoexpiring brand new shows)

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Aug 26 22:40:38 UTC 2008


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Speaking of which, does anyone know of a way to make NFS tolerant of the 
> NFS server's going down so that it will automatically unmount/remount 
> the filesystems?

Technically NFS is stateless -- if a server goes down, I/O requests on 
that filesystem just hang until it comes back.  No need to remount. 
This usually isn't what people want, though, because it leads to lots of 
applications sitting around in unkillable D states.



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