Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 01:30:28 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft mounting a file system (nfs) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911080129340.2296-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911072118520.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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.
Ahhhhh, that would be it. Which man page should I be looking at for
available "fstab" options? Or are the ones listed in mount_nfs under
'deprecated' still available through fstab, just not -o <option>?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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