grover@sed170.hac.com (Dean Grover (ird)) (01/21/89)
I have a Sun 4/260 running 4.0 which mounts a directory from another Sun 4/260 (4.0) over a VERY slow network interface. The problem: when I try and copy a large file (1 Mb) to the NFS partition, I sometimes get "timeout" errors. The question: what is the best mount parameter to change ? Or will any of that help? I have used "timeo=30" as a pure random guess, and this seems to be ok. My /etc/fstab entry looks like this: sun1:/usera /usera ... nfs rw,soft,bg,timeo=30 0 0 Our reasoning for using a soft mount is that we don't want our server to hang it the other server goes down. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dean Grover Hughes Aircraft Company grover@sed170.hac.com or adgrover@hac2arpa.hac.com