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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: More NFS Problems
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On Fri,  6 February 1998 at 10:07:26 -0500, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
>
> share.atl:/share        /share          nfs     rw,bg,intr,soft 0       0
>
> As you can see, I've got all the proper flags and such, however every time
> /share goes down, the servers mounted to it stop responding and need a
> reboot.  Any idears?

I think it's broken.  A soft mount should cause NFS to give up after a
while, but I've never seen it happen, and I've given it a long time.

I'm copying -hackers on this one.  Maybe somebody can tell us either
why it should be like this, or why it will all be better when we get
devfs.  Maybe somebody will even like to fix it.  (And yes, guys, I'd
like to do it myself, but I don't have the time).

Greg