Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x

Chris Friesen
2004-04-17T04:57:28Z

Daniel Egger wrote:

> Great you want to help here. So I've a system which is NFS root using a
> 3c940 gigabit onboard NIC on kernel 2.6.5 and which is dead fish in the
> water somewhere in between 10 seconds and 5 minutes after boot using
> NFS over UDP. The last thing I see are 3 or 4 messages of the type:

If this is an issue, it might make sense to have root be a tmpfs
filesystem, and then have specific network mounts. Note--don't make
"/var/log" network mounted, various apps default to trying to check for
files there--if the server goes away, you can't log in/out.

Chris