From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 27 16:42:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23307 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23292 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21302; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:41:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Marco Masotti cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS client umount from a not responding server In-Reply-To: <36358E99.3F54BC7E@mclink.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Marco Masotti wrote: > I often use to NFS mount from different servers and it also happens that > some NFS server get disconnected from the network, due to the workshop > nature of the network. > > In such cases, the NFS client remains stuck, because of the hard NFS > mount, and it seems that no way exists to umount from the server that is > no longer responding on the network. > > Is any way to convince the client to hard umount from a NFS server not > responding? Not on a hard mount. :-( You'll have to restore the original server or reboot the client. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message