From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 3:54:27 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 C316437B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 03:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 725FE43E6A for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 03:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 17636 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 10:54:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 10:54:22 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E3C02FDAB2; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:54:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:54:12 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Erik Trulsson , Daniel Bye Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: NFS: stuck in an uninterruptible system call Message-ID: <20020918105412.GF379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Erik Trulsson , Daniel Bye , freebsd-questions References: <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020918101101.GB38921@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020918100726.GA99644@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020918101101.GB38921@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20020918100726.GA99644@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> 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 # ertr1013@student.uu.se / 2002-09-18 12:07:26 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:49:06AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > 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. > > Read the mount_nfs(8) manpage and pay special attention to the -i, -s > and -b flags. # dan@slightlystrange.org / 2002-09-18 11:11:01 +0100: > man mount_nfs has this: > > -s A soft mount, which implies that file system calls will fail > after Retry round trip timeout intervals. > > It works for me. Not sure of the implications with regard to data > integrity, though - I use nfs for fairly trivial purposes, so it doesn't > bother me. YMM, as they say, V. thanks guys. this has somehow eluded me. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 12:25PM up 19:40, 12 users, load averages: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message