Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox

> When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
> received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

Yes. Unless you made the mount with -o soft. The box will wait until the server
comes back

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Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Doug McNaught

Roland Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi folks!
> 
> When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
> received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

If it's a hard nfs mount, yes.  Mount soft if you want timeouts.

-Doug
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[newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Kuhn

Hi folks!

When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

Please help,
Roland

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[newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Kuhn

Hi folks!

When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

Please help,
Roland

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Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Doug McNaught

Roland Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi folks!
 
 When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
 received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

If it's a hard nfs mount, yes.  Mount soft if you want timeouts.

-Doug
-- 
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time...  --Dylan
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Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox

 When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
 received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

Yes. Unless you made the mount with -o soft. The box will wait until the server
comes back

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