Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:07:26 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS: stuck in an uninterruptible system call Message-ID: <20020918100726.GA99644@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:49:06AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > I'm sure this is all old news to you: > > Machine A has mounted a filesystem NFS exported from machine B. > Machine B reboots. > Anything on box A that tries to access the now gone fs will hang > forever. > > I've read about deficiencies in NFS many times and places, but it's > almost impossible to believe that it would be *that* broken. Is it > really, or can I get rid of this problem by adding a switch somewhere? > > If there's no way out inherent to NFS, I'm thinking about scripting > around it. Before I sit on this task (pretty big imo), maybe someone > already has a workaround. Care to share? Read the mount_nfs(8) manpage and pay special attention to the -i, -s and -b flags. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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