From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 3: 7:43 2002 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 8BC1937B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 03:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2045843E77 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 03:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8IA7SOM009140 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:07:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h62n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.62]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA23871 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:07:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 99690 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Sep 2002 10:07:26 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:07:26 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: NFS: stuck in an uninterruptible system call Message-ID: <20020918100726.GA99644@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Roman Neuhauser , freebsd-questions References: <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message