Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
> When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not > received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? Yes. Unless you made the mount with -o soft. The box will wait until the server comes back - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Doug McNaught
Roland Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks! > > When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not > received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? If it's a hard nfs mount, yes. Mount soft if you want timeouts. -Doug -- The rain man gave me two cures; he

Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Doug McNaught
Roland Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks! When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? If it's a hard nfs mount, yes. Mount soft if you want timeouts. -Doug -- The rain man gave me two cures; he said

Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? Yes. Unless you made the mount with -o soft. The box will wait until the server comes back - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the