[TAG] NFS mount hangs - server available

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ramon van Alteren (ramon at vanalteren.nl):

> Reading that in the cold light of the morning I realised the same.
> Sorry, Mike at 1.00 AM after a really long day in an even longer week my
> mind just bounced on the riff-raff part.

Eh, you're allowed to be cranky.

> FWIW I've landed a really nice job running a 80+ linux HA-cluster
> based on gentoo about a month ago.  However they lacked a sysadmin for
> the last 6 months whilst growing from 20 server -> 80+ and development
> has been doing the sysadminning :-( Although I'm enjoying myself
> immensely the working-hours for the past month have been insane.

Eh, you're allowed to be double-plus cranky.  ;->

I have some idea of what running such an HPC setup entails, having been
part of a team that built and tested (but did _not_ administer) what was
at the time of deployment the #2 entry on the Top500 supercomputer list,
a 1024-node monster based on 4U quad-Itanium2 Intel Tiger4 boxes.  I'm
sure I could still dissassemble and debug that thing in my sleep, though
I'm trying hard to forget.

> I've had some real coffee and I'd love a virtual cup from the TAG lounge :-)

Please indulge.  XTeddy will help with the cream and sugar, if you
happen to lean that way.  Me, I go for the Agent Cooper effect:  
"Black as midnight on a moonless night."

-- 
Cheers,             
Rick Moen                 "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
rick at linuxmafia.com                                   -- Elizabeth Tudor