Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft mounting a file system (nfs) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911072118520.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911080048450.2296-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Just looked through the man page for mount_nfs, and fstab, and it > appears that the ability to 'soft mount' a file system (-o soft) has been > deprecated in favor of (-s)...but how do I match that inside of > /etc/exports for boot time? > > I'm trying to prove stability of FreeBSD to Windoze users, and one of the > problems that we are trying to rectify is Windows locking up when a Novell > server dies...I figured with FreeBSD/soft-mounting this wouldn't be a > problem, except that iether I'm doing the soft-mounting wrong (adding > 'soft' to options in /etc/fstab), or this is a problem still with when the > network does go down? I think you're looking for 'intr', soft will hang for a while then timeout with an error, 'intr' allows you to kill/^C programs the wedge on NFS. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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