NFS mount dissappearing

[Matthew Gillen]

Robert La Ferla wrote:
> I am having NFS problems.   My NFS server runs on Fedora Core 6.   I
> have Mac OS X 10.4, Linux and Windows clients.  The main problem is with
> the OSX client.   I put my iTunes library on the server to conserve
> local disk space but occasionally the mounted iTunes directory goes
> away.  iTunes doesn't complain but thinks I have an empty library and
> then proceeds to build a new one.  It doesn't erase the actual music but
> destroys the index instead.  I do not know why the NFS mount point is
> disappearing.  The client uses the options "w,net,tcp" for the mount.  I
> only use TCP because I need UDP for other services like Bitorrent and
> RTSP (Asterisk), etc...  What could be going on?  Should I try using a
> "hard" mount option?

Are you using the automounter?  Because that will unmount if you haven't
used any files on a given share for a while.  I have the that issue with a
music share on my linux box.

If not, what does /var/log/messages say on the client and server?

Matt

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