NFS - changing IP address after startup

[Ran Shalit]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Ran Shalit <ranshalit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it legal to change ip address & mac address when working with NFS,
>> and after linux finished startup ?
>> It seems that in such case, NFS can get stuck, right?
>
> I think yes, NFS can't tolerate changing IP, both in client and server side.
>
> I remember it, well not exactly identical case, when my NFS server
> dies. In that case, the NFS client box just hung....I guess it waited
> for somekind of acknowledgment....but none coming. IMHO it gets worse
> when you use "sync" option in NFS.
>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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Hi Mulyadi,

Thanks for the reply. That is also what I remember from past
experience, I just did not find any documentation about it, so I
wasn't totally sure that there is such limitation/requirement with
regads to NFS.

Regards,
Ran