Re: [expert] Avoiding NFS clients Hang when NFS server dies

2003-07-24 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tru64 User wanted us to know: Problem is that if any one host goes down, all other hosts hang with a df. Additionally, other programs 2.Using the soft option for mounting (default=hard). None of these are a cure. Any additional suggestions out there?

[expert] Avoiding NFS clients Hang when NFS server dies

2003-07-23 Thread Tru64 User
Hi All, My Unix boxes are heavy crossmounters of disks served mainly by Mandy Linux, + mandy-mandy mounts. Problem is that if any one host goes down, all other hosts hang with a df. Additionally, other programs that utilize df (eg. our backups, ssh --when it tries to generate random seed runs a

Re: [expert] Avoiding NFS clients Hang when NFS server dies

2003-07-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:47 pm, Tru64 User wrote: None of these are a cure. Any additional suggestions out there? _Thanks Richard Hmm, never tried this (think I'll go try in a minute though) but is it possible to put a line like: umount /nfs-mounted/directory /dev/null into one of