On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Yay!  Now you have entered the territory that I am worried about: if
> we try and touch disk where the mount-point might be, we run the risk
> that a hung hard NFS mount might have us blocked forever.  Resolving
> the device, not such a problem, but since we are drifting down the
> path of touching the file system...

FWIW this does happen, I've seen it in production on Solaris due to a nasty bug 
that causes mountpoints to go catatonic if the host runs out of privileged 
ports. We have nagios watch for stale puppetdlock files and flag hosts who've 
had a puppet agent spinning for >1hr.


 - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738  - http://twitter.com/ahpook  -

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