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Re: Strange behaviour with NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernhard Heidegger)
Wed Nov 22 22:56:59 1995
From: Bernhard Heidegger <inet:hdg@devel.ipacific.net.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 21:59:00
To: Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, Martin Schulze wrote:
> I found some strange behaviour according to the nfs filesystem in the
> kernel.
>
> Whenever the nfs server isn't reachable the process on the client
> machine just hangs around, partially in 'D' status which means
> non-interruptable.
>
> BUT: The program just hangs around. You cannot kill it with Ctrl-C. So
> nfs is not usable for machines, where users can access other
> computer's files via modem line (uucp or bbs).
Try to mount the nfs filesystem 'soft'; my fstab looks like this:
...
jupiter:/usr3 /usr3/jupiter nfs soft,bg,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
...
We have many nfs mounted filesystems here, and it works even when a server
dies.
Bernhard.
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