Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:57:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903191355400.32959-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
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In article <7ctk6q$6t9$1@ananke.salford.ac.uk>,
Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote:
>At 01:05 AM 3/19/99 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>>Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> writes:
>>> NFS continues, after many many years, to virtually lock up systems
>>> when the server goes away and anything on it is in the path. If you
>>> try to dismount it locks up also.
>>
>>That's a feature, and it can easily be turned off.
>>
>>"Users continue, after many years, to refuse to read documentation,
>>and blame their incompetence on the OS and its developers...."
>
>Any clues on how?
>
>Docs on nfsd and mountd dont seem to mention anything.
You haven't looked at 'man mount_nfs' for all those years? Just to confuse
the issue and to show it's not FreeBSD specific, from Solaris 2.6 'man
mount_nfs':
...
soft|hard Return an error if the server does not
respond, or continue the retry request
until the server responds. The default
value is hard.
...
intr|nointr Allow (do not allow) keyboard interrupts
to kill a process that is hung while
waiting for a response on a hard-mounted
file system. The default is intr.
...
Thus, something like "rw,bg,soft,intr" as your nfs options may help with
FreeBSD's broken NFS (sic).
Mark Powell - System Administrator (UNIX) - Clifford Whitworth Building
A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK.
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M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me)
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