From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 20:23:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C5A37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:23:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from portal.aphroland.org (portal.aphroland.org [216.39.174.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92B243EC2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@aphroland.org) Received: by portal.aphroland.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) id AB7B4278018; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:23:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from portal.aphroland.org (debian [127.0.0.1]) by portal.aphroland.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 092D027800B for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from redhat.aphroland.org ([10.10.10.7]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aphro) by webmail.linuxpowered.net with HTTP; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:23:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <59006.10.10.10.7.1041740592.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:23:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable. From: "nate" To: X-XheaderVersion: 1.1 X-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 In-Reply-To: <20030105001254.GA48290@lewiz.org> References: <20030105001254.GA48290@lewiz.org> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.42 X-Spam-Level: X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/ X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lewiz said: > Hi, > > Anybody know about using NFS with laptops. I want to be able to pick > up and go with my laptop -- problem is I seem unable to umount any NFS > filesystems when the NFS server is unavailable. try mounting with the soft option. the system will give up rather quickly if the NFS server is not available, and the system should resume normal operations. Most systems default to hard NFS mounts. some people reccomend against soft, but I've never had a problem with it. nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message