NFS mounting, Hard -vs- automount

["theBlueSage" <user=72@nabble.blu.org>]

 Hi Folks, 

I use a lot of NFS mounts between my data servers and the front end 
boxes that use the data to delivery web content. However, I am running 
into problems when the NFS mounts seem to just .. ' go away '. These are 
CentOS boxes, and not all mounts to the machine failed, actually only 
one of five. However, as they fail silently, it sucks... 
I tried to use Automount last year to handle the mounting, but had 
problems with that too when machines got rebooted. 

so .. my question is : what are the best ways to keep NFS mounts alive, 
and monitored ? are hard mounts plus a monitor better in the long run 
than automount, Are my experiences with automount abnormal, and I should 
go back with it ? whats the general view here ... 

I appreciate any responses ... including ones that may say NFS is a bad 
solution and I shoud use XYZ solution. I am open to anything at this 
point. 
All my Servers are CentOS5.1, using NFS4... 

thanks 

Richard 


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