From: Brian Kerr <kerrboy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: nfs stale directory listings
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:51:11 -0400
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On 10/13/05, Chris Croswhite <csc@cadence.com> wrote:
> do you mind mounting with sync option?  This will force write to disk
> (in your case NFS disk).  This is what I did to make file appear
> consistantly across the modest computer farm I work with.  e.g.
> /etc/init.d/autofs- localoptions "sync".  Too, is there a reason you
> chose soft mounts?

I will try using the sync option - there is a performance hit
associated with using that option though which may or may not be a
problem.

We are using soft mounts to prevent OS/app related hangs due to NFS
when one of the various nfs mounts cannot be reached.

-Brian


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