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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:21:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nfs problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990330182039.4169A-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <199903302249.AAA10220@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>

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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Thomas Schuerger wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm experiencing serious NFS problems, when
> a remote NFS directory (also on FreeBSD) mounted on my
> machine goes down for whatever reason (e.g. normal
> shutdown). From then on, any processes accessing the mounted
> NFS directory (e.g. executing ls or even df) will die and stay
> non-removable (kill -9 shows no effect on them!) in the system.
> If the remote server goes up again, then sometimes these
> processes work again.
> 
> I wonder if this is a general problem of NFS or just a
> problem with FreeBSD (haven't checked it with non-current
> machines). Any ideas/fixes?

This is freebsd following the NFS spec, please read the mount_nfs
man page for the workaround (hint: intr).

Check out the ORA book on NFS and NIS, it's quite good.

-Alfred


> 
> 
> Ciao,
> Thomas.
>  
> 
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