From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 4:43:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FBE37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 04:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD75B43E3B for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 04:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:43:00 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17WbZy-0005oy-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:42:18 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:42:18 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Nimrod Mesika Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: umount nfs In-Reply-To: <20020720101036.GA95074@localhost.bsd.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > How does one umount an NFS filesystem when the connection is no > longer available? (for example a dial up that has been > disconnected). > > umount and all commands that try to access that filesystem (df) just > get 'stuck'. Reconnecting does not help either. > > This is on FreeBSD 4.6 accessing a Solaris 2.7 server through a pptp > (point to point tunnelling protocol) tunnel over a PPP dial up. Mount NFS partitions using "soft" and/or "intr" mode. This stops the kernel blocking indefinitely on reads to lost filesystems. which is probably the problem. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk I shave with Occam's Razor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message