From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 20:55:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1DE15152 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:55:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19849; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:19:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft mounting a file system (nfs) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Just looked through the man page for mount_nfs, and fstab, and it > appears that the ability to 'soft mount' a file system (-o soft) has been > deprecated in favor of (-s)...but how do I match that inside of > /etc/exports for boot time? > > I'm trying to prove stability of FreeBSD to Windoze users, and one of the > problems that we are trying to rectify is Windows locking up when a Novell > server dies...I figured with FreeBSD/soft-mounting this wouldn't be a > problem, except that iether I'm doing the soft-mounting wrong (adding > 'soft' to options in /etc/fstab), or this is a problem still with when the > network does go down? I think you're looking for 'intr', soft will hang for a while then timeout with an error, 'intr' allows you to kill/^C programs the wedge on NFS. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message