Re: Dropping NFS mounts

[Kevin Carpenter <kevinc@monrou.com>]

For what's its worth - I dropped back to 2.2.11 (my production release
running on my NFS server) just to see if that would help.

Kevin C.

> 
> 
> Sorry for the off-topic subject, but I thought this group may have
> relavent experience:
> 
> I currently running a diskless Linux (RedHat 6.1 with the 2.3.29 kernel)
> that is dropping it's mounts.
> 
> I havn't spotted anything in the log files (sent to another machines 
> syslogd to keep NFS out of it).  No errors are being sent to console.
> 
> Roughly daily, I'm losing /usr, /usr/src/linux, and /proc which comprise
> all of my mounts with the exception of /.  Last night I only lost /usr/src/
> linux.  Previous nights resulted in loss of all three.
> 
> "top" and "ps" are being used as a diagnostic tools.  Loss of /proc prevents
> both from running.  Loss of /usr/src/linux results in a complaint about
> having the wrong /usr/src/linux/system.map by top.  Loss of /usr results in
> top not being found <grin>.  So far, I havn't lost /.
> 
> The kernel remains running, and mount request are satifised without 
> problem if I reissue them.
> 
> This is my first use of NFS under Linux, so if there is a basic stability
> problem there, or with 2.3.29 in this situation, please just say so.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Carpenter
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