On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:20 -0700, Chakri n wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I was using flock (BSD locking) and I think the problem should be
> solved if I move my application to use POSIX locks.
Yup.
> And any option to avoid processes waiting indefinitely to free pages
> from NFS requests waiting on unresponsive NFS server?
The only solution I know of is to use soft mounts, but that brings
another set of problems:
1. most applications don't know how to recover safely from an EIO
error.
2. You lose data.
Cheers
Trond
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