Re: NFS Reliability compared to FreeBSD?

[Andrew Swisher <swishera@nmc.wpafb.af.mil>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:39:39PM -0600, Damian wrote:
> 
> I've been having problems with NFS not returning "stale NFS handles" when
> trying to access mounted drives that have dropped off of the network.
> I know IRIX and NeXTSTEP returned this error.  Symptoms include such
> things as mount/umount hanging as well as df.

<SNIP>

I may not understand your problem, but try mounting your nfs partitions with somthing like:

nfs-server:/home /home nfs rw,soft

in your /etc/fstab file


this fixed symptoms like what you're describing - ie "df -k", mount, umount, etc hangs when the nfs server goes offline for whatever reason.


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