From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 11:28:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23552 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:28:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23533 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu) Received: from o2.cs.rpi.edu (crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu [128.113.96.156]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26309 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:27:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199901141927.OAA26309@cs.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mountd on FreeBSD Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:27:20 -0500 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whenever I kill -HUP the mountd on our FreeBSD servers it causes, momentarily, for all connections to all clients to be denied as it reads the new information. This is *highly* undesirable (and not mentioned at all in the man pages). This is even worse than a system reboot in many aspects since a reboot will just hang connections, while this actaully gives permission denied. As a side effect, any program that is running off of the NFS mount, should it need to access a page not in cache will be immediately be killed *BAD*. Is there any way arround this problem? None of Solaris, HP-UX, or even *gasp* Irix exhibit this behaviour. -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message