Bug 37004 – nfs - timeout for exportfs in /etc/init.d/nfs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vlastimil Holer 2004-01-02 02:40:04 UTC]

Hi,

we have file server which has 2500 nfs exports. In nfs startup script is 30 sec. timeout for exportfs. That is not enough for us so I modified script and changed timeout to be taken from configuration.

See attached patch.

Have a nice day,
Vlasta

[Comment 1 Vlastimil Holer 2004-01-02 02:41:26 UTC]

Created attachment 23000 [details, diff]
Patch to nfs-utils

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-01-02 03:15:33 UTC]

i like the idea

[Comment 3 Steven Wagner 2004-02-17 00:46:52 UTC]

I like this also.  I want to ask though if anyone knows how we came up with the number 30 for the default.  Maybe we should make it higher since in many common configurations nfs takes longer then 30 seconds, and we end up killing exportfs before it finishes.  At the same time we dont want the machine to lock indefinitly.  I don't know what the default should be but I think 30 seconds is too short.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-06-11 17:19:09 UTC]

added the option to configure exportfs timeout to nfs-utils-1.0.6-r3, thanks

[Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-07-07 09:50:47 UTC]

...and I added a default of 30 seconds in case EXPORTFSTIMEOUT is unset in the configuration file, -r4

[Comment 6 MAL 2004-08-10 01:10:02 UTC]

Please see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4235#c5