Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:42:18 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodm@bezeqint.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: umount nfs Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0207221241160.26660-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020720101036.GA95074@localhost.bsd.net.il>
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > How does one umount an NFS filesystem when the connection is no > longer available? (for example a dial up that has been > disconnected). > > umount and all commands that try to access that filesystem (df) just > get 'stuck'. Reconnecting does not help either. > > This is on FreeBSD 4.6 accessing a Solaris 2.7 server through a pptp > (point to point tunnelling protocol) tunnel over a PPP dial up. Mount NFS partitions using "soft" and/or "intr" mode. This stops the kernel blocking indefinitely on reads to lost filesystems. which is probably the problem. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk I shave with Occam's Razor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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