Re: SMP locks up when NFS times out

Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:17:16 -0400


I wrote:
| So, could some of you out there try my crash method (pulling the
| ethernet wire during a big NFS read) after mounting with rsize=4096 and
| wsize=4096? I'll bet you'll lock up Linux SMP!

Sorry to follow up. People have tried it with "soft" NFS mounts, and
that works fine. It is "hard" mounts that I'm concerned about.

Lee Hetherington
ilh@lcs.mit.edu