From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 20:10:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA22965 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA22960 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00291; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Question, NFS Mounts In-Reply-To: <4tniu1$p2i@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 31 Jul 1996, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > I have Yet another Problem, how to unmount an NFS Filesystem, when > the Server is not responding ? It now happend to me quite often, > that an NFS Server went down, (because a link went dead) > so every ls on / (where /nfshome was mounted) hung till timeout. > my only solution so far has been to reboot, to get rid of the > NFS mount ... Uh, umount /nfshome? umount -f /nfshome if it really hung? NFS is written such that if the NFS server dies and restarts, once it gets going again you should regain access to that mount. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major