Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:54:12 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS: stuck in an uninterruptible system call Message-ID: <20020918105412.GF379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020918101101.GB38921@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20020918100726.GA99644@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020918101101.GB38921@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20020918094906.GE379@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020918100726.GA99644@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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# 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.
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