> It's crazy that the whole system grinds to a near halt if it loses connection to the NFS server, from an end user perspective.
Indeed. The only solution that works consistently, if the NFS server is not coming back up anytime soon: Enable an NFS server on localhost; add the address of failed NFS server to a local adapter; wait for retry to finally get an error answer; kill ip address and local NFS server.
Client side caching will only delay the inevitable.
Indeed. The only solution that works consistently, if the NFS server is not coming back up anytime soon: Enable an NFS server on localhost; add the address of failed NFS server to a local adapter; wait for retry to finally get an error answer; kill ip address and local NFS server.
Client side caching will only delay the inevitable.