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GIAC Exam GSNA Topic 4 Question 7 Discussion
Topic #: 4
Which of the following NFS mount options specifies whether a program using a file via an NFS connection should stop and wait for the server to come back online, if the host serving the exported file system is unavailable, or if it should report an error?
The hard or soft NFS mount options are used to specify whether a program using a file via an NFS connection should stop and wait (hard) for the server to come back online, if the host serving the exported file system is unavailable, or if it should report an error.
Answer A is incorrect. The intr NFS mount option allows NFS requests to be interrupted if the server goes down or cannot be reached.
Answer C is incorrect. The nfsvers=2 or nfsvers=3 NFS mount options are used to specify which version of the NFS protocol to use.
Answer D is incorrect. The fsid=num NFS mount option forces the file handle and file attributes settings on the wire to be num.
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