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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:29:24 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
To:        mi@video-collage.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS discovery
Message-ID:  <199806011829.NAA20244@home.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806011751.NAA29921@xxx.video-collage.com> from Mikhail Teterin at "Jun 1, 98 01:51:03 pm"

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> Kevin Day once stated:
> 
> =However entering this on the client machine
> =
> =mount -u -o async /home
> =
> =*while* the client's nfs is hosed will make it recover within 5
> =seconds. It even appears that all the writes that were queued are
> =executed, and no data is lost.
> 
> That's a great thing to know. Those hungups are damn annoying.
> The reason is, probably, a side effect of how `-u'/`async' are
> implemented. AFAIK, the fs is unmounted and then remounted with
> async. Which is just what you wanted.

That's my thought too, but:

umount /home

will freeze, so it's not exactly unmounting things. :)

> 
> =Is there any way of making whatever it was that did this happen
> =automatically every once in a while? :)
> 
> NFS hung ups are a strange topic, in my experience. People agree
> that they are "bad", but one is not supposed to complain about
> them...

Don't read my post as a complaint, rather as a 'hey, why does it do this?"
:)

Kevin

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