RE NFS4 problem

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:08:23PM +0200, pierre_stephane.baton at alcatelaleniaspace.com wrote:
> Try a soft mount, in place of the hard one:
> 
> hard or soft specifies whether the program using a file via an NFS 
> connection should stop and wait (hard) for the server to come back online 
> if the host serving the exported filesystem is unavailable, or if it 
> should report an error (soft).

This can lead to some pretty strange results, and isn't something you
should do unless you're positive that you understand the consequences.

> I think your client is waiting for the nfs server, but get no answer

So it's probably some kind of deadlock on the server.

> Check firewalls, connections, switches, etc.

But that's also possible.

--b.