From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 21:30:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat198.58.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.198.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FB314F42 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA25364; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 01:30:28 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 01:30:28 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft mounting a file system (nfs) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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