[auton-users] bigpapa connection

[nichol]

Dont want to scare people, but we have had two RAID array failures
up here in Physics. 

* > I was running with some of Paul's data in
* > 
* > /.automount/lofty/BigPapa/home/komarek/h/pfizer/icml2003_experiments/athlonmp/reuters/mydata/
* > 
* > and all was fine.
* > 
* > But then it claimed file not found for a few minutes
* > 
* > and now its back again.
* > 
* > Is there something like the equivalent of klogging that I should be
* > doing? Thanks,
* > 
* >   Andrew
*
*I got the same thing today. Could be that the automounter unmounted the
*filesystem after some idle time, and couldn't re-mount it quickly enough
*when you accessed it again. The re-mount speed is most likely a function of
*the load on the local network - the fileserver isn't at all loaded.
*
*Pat: can we change the automounter defaults so it:
*
* 1. waits longer before unmounting an idle connection
*
* 2. tries harder and more times to mount a filesystem before deciding it's
*dead
*
*?
*
*
*As a workaround, try typing "ls /mnt/BigPapa" - for me it convinced the
*automounter to mount the filesystem again, and then the application was
*happy.
*

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