Desktop freeze on NFS share failure

[Rex Dieter]

Emmett Culley wrote:

> Why does the desktop freeze whenever an NFS share fails?  I have set all
> NFS mounts to soft,intr and yet, if I forget to unmount a share before
> taking down the NFS server, my desktop freezes.
> 
> Luckily I have Yakauke running, so I can at least get to a console.  But
> of course the NFS mount cannot be umounted if it doesn't respond.
> 
> Also I assumed the setting shares to intr, soft would prevent other
> software from hanging if the share stops responding.  Is that not so?  Or
> is there another setting I am not aware of?
> 
> Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?


It not *that* different to when a (mounted) disk stops working.  I'd 
recommend focusing on simply avoiding that situation.

-- rex