Desktop freeze on NFS share failure
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Aug 16 11:01:40 UTC 2015
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
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