On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > How does one umount an NFS filesystem when the connection is no > longer available? (for example a dial up that has been > disconnected). > > umount and all commands that try to access that filesystem (df) just > get 'stuck'. Reconnecting does not help either. > > This is on FreeBSD 4.6 accessing a Solaris 2.7 server through a pptp > (point to point tunnelling protocol) tunnel over a PPP dial up.
Mount NFS partitions using "soft" and/or "intr" mode. This stops the kernel blocking indefinitely on reads to lost filesystems. which is probably the problem. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I shave with Occam's Razor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
