From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 19 5:41: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DE514F97 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 05:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from workstation.etinc.com (port18.netsvr1.cst.vastnet.net [207.252.73.18]) by etinc.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA03806; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:39:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903191339.IAA03806@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:51:41 -0500 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav From: Dennis Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199903181604.LAA21997@etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:05 AM 3/19/99 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Dennis writes: >> NFS continues, after many many years, to virtually lock up systems >> when the server goes away and anything on it is in the path. If you >> try to dismount it locks up also. > >That's a feature, and it can easily be turned off. > >"Users continue, after many years, to refuse to read documentation, >and blame their incompetence on the OS and its developers...." > >DES Any clues on how? Docs on nfsd and mountd dont seem to mention anything. Incompetence is a function of available information. Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.etinc.com T1/T3 boards for FreeBSD and Linux Bandwidth Management for FreeBSD and BSD/OS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message