[mythtv-users] Network storage fault tolerance (was Re: Myth autoexpiring brand new shows)
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Aug 26 23:44:25 UTC 2008
On Aug 26, 2008, at 3:40 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 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.
That's why I used the intr option when I was using remote storage:
intr
Allow signals to interrupt an NFS call. Useful for aborting when the
server doesn't respond.
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