From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 19 5:59:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from europa.salford.ac.uk (europa.salford.ac.uk [146.87.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B652153A1 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 05:58:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 29507 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 1999 13:57:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 29500 invoked from network); 19 Mar 1999 13:57:27 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by europa.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 19 Mar 1999 13:57:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 33206 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 1999 13:57:21 -0000 Delivered-To: catchall-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: (qmail 33197 invoked by uid 141); 19 Mar 1999 13:57:21 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:57:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <7ctk6q$6t9$1@ananke.salford.ac.uk>, Dennis wrote: >At 01:05 AM 3/19/99 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >>Dennis 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. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message