On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I have a Linux box as an NFS server and a FreeBSD box which acts as an
:NFS client. If I explicitly shutdown the NFS services in the Linux box,
:actions like 'df', 'ls /mnt' (/mnt is the mount point of the remote
:directory), or even 'umount /mnt', in the FreeBSD box, seem to lock forever.
:I waited for about 20-25 mins, I got a 'server not responding' message, but
:the processes were still locked and I could not even kill them.
:
:I started again the NFS services in the Linux box and I got a 'server alive'
:message in the FreeBSD box, after about 10 mins.
:
:Is that the correct behaviour? I had a look over /sys/nfs/nfs.h and the
Yep. That's the expected behavior. If this is a problem, you can use the
intr to make processes blocked on I/O to the missing filesystems
interruptible.
David
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