Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:34:03 +0000 From: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info> To: richard childers / kg6hac <fscked@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable. Message-ID: <20030105113403.GE48290@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <3E1781E0.20D76CB8@pacbell.net> References: <20030105001254.GA48290@lewiz.org> <3E1781E0.20D76CB8@pacbell.net>
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On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:52:48PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
> I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that
> describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file.
>=20
> That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get you a relatively stateless NFS
> connection.
I must admit, I've never worked with amd but it may be worth a try -- it
can't be any worse than the situation I'm in at the moment. Thanks for
bringing it to my attention ;)
> I've had some success using 'umount -f' to forcibly umount NFS filesystem=
s,
> from the client side, in the past.
This surprised me. I had assumed a forced umount would actually force
the umount, yet, it seems not to have done. I am confuzed as to what is
and what isn't a bug (often I'm screwing things up myself, I'm sure).
Do you think this would count as a bug? If other people have had
problems too, it almost suggests it might be.
> However, NFS, while stateless in intent, is really not a good
> infrastructural element for a plug-and-play network. Plugging in is easy;
> unplugging may require an explicit shutdown to properly deallocate
> resources.
Yeah, I'm starting to learn this now. I don't really know what else to
use. I've heard of CODA and even AFS but I don't know their suitability
to my purpose. I think I might do a bit more research then ask again on
this list.
Thanks for your information, I'll go read about amd ;)
-lewiz.
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