====== NFS Quick Reference ======

===== Some useful commands =====
====== NFS Quick Reference ======

===== Commands =====
==== Finding mounts we can use ====
If you put the server's IP address (or DNS name) below, it will show all NFS mounts available to your machine
<code bash>
showmount -e serverip
</code>

==== Checking Lock Status ====

Subversion hung when I ran it off an NFS mount. Took a while to track down, but it turns out subversion wants a lock on some files whenever you do a checkout/update/commit. Sounds reasonable.

I had locking installed and configured, but it was not running on my server (FreeBSD).
<code bash>
service lockd status
</code>

Started the service (service lockd start) and subversion did its job within a few seconds.
==== Locking ====

I had a situation where an application (subversion) would hang. Took a while to track down. Turns out, subversion locks files on checkout, update and commit (sound reasonable) and, it will wait forever for the lock.

My **server** (FreeBSD) had lockd installed but I had never started it. Following command showed me that, so I started it, and all of a sudden, subversion got its lock and did its thing.
<code bash>
service lockd status
</code>