Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ki!dwatts
From: dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Force dismount NFS partitions?
Message-ID: <872@ki.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 00:11:23 GMT
References: <870@ki.UUCP> <1990Oct17.003935.15103@nstn.ns.ca>
Organization: Ki Research, Inc.  Derry, NH
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In article <1990Oct17.003935.15103@nstn.ns.ca> marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli) writes:
>In article <870@ki.UUCP> dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
>> ... stuff deleted about nfs partitions ...
>    If you set up the NFS mounted partitions to be "soft" mounted,
>the system will not hang when host server goes away.
>everything will continue to work, although  any access to the partition via
>df will report that it cannot be accessed. Otherwise, the partition will look
>like an empty subdirectory when it is not mounted.


I do have them mounted as soft.  An example entry is:

puff:/usr/export/home/amiga   /puff/amiga   nfs bg,rw,soft,retry=2 0 0

unfortunately, if I try to shutdown the system or do a umount, it just hangs
there.  I get status messages every minute or so saying that the server isn't
responding.  It's been suggested that I do a 'umount -k <dir>' for each
of the remote NFS partitions.  I've not had the time yet to try this though.
At the time I did the umount, there were no processes with open files in the
remote system or with current directories there so I don't know if this will
do any good or not.

If when I boot up the server isn't there, then the umount works just find and
goes into the background trying to mount.  Just can't get umount to give up
and quit.
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