[...]
> I can now lock up the machine at will by doing the following:
>
> 1. start a big NFS read (10s of MB) with something like
>
> % sum /big/nfs/file
>
> 2. wait 10s or so
>
> 3. pull the ethernet connection
>
> As soon as you see your first "NFS server not responding" (at least I
> think you see it, now I'm not sure) you're locked up for good.
>
[...]
> Lee Hetherington
> ilh@lcs.mit.edu
It isn't a fix, but you could/should try adding the 'soft'
option to the mount option list. With soft mounting of nfs volumes,
Linux should retry the connection once and then give up gracefully if
the remote machine doesn't respond.
I use this with the machines at work(not on the Linux machine
though since it doesn't have any nfs mounts), and it works well under
AIX, Solaris, and SunOS.
--Darrin
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