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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: hpux 6.5:  nfs mount from hell
Message-ID: <2008@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 90 18:35:29 GMT
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Distribution: comp
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apparently, it's a feature of HP-UX to be very stubborn if an
nfs mounted disk goes away...  everything starts going to pieces
when this happens, and one workstation after another hangs up --
even if the workstation is not referencing the mounted nfs disk at all.

does 7.0 do anything nicer when an nfs mounted disk goes away?
whenever this happens, we can't simply unmount the disk, because
it is "busy"...  (i'm sure some workstation or other is actually 
keeping it busy, but why should *all* workstations freeze after a while?)



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