Changing the grace period

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:27:08PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:55:29AM -0400, Avishay Traeger wrote:
> > I have a few questions about changing the grace period (I want to make
> > it shorter for testing purposes since 90 seconds is annoying).
> > 
> > 1. Is there any way to do this without modifying the code?  From what I
> > can see, there isn't.
> 
> If I remember correctly, the way it's supposed to work is you write to
> /proc/fs/nfsd/nfsv4leasetime, then restart nfsd, and the new lease time
> will take effect on the restart.

(And what you probably actually want to do is put an

	echo 10 >/proc/fs/nfsd/nfsv4leasetime

right before the rpc.nfsd call in your nfs server init script.)

--b.