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

[Brad DerManouelian]

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.