Re: df hangs on down nfs server mounted with hard,intr, can't kill

[Wade Hampton <wade.hampton@nsc1.net>]

Lever, Charles wrote:

>hi wade-
>
>the fact that "intr" doesn't work as expected is a bug, and
>folks are attempting to address this at least partially in 2.6.
>  
>
Thanks.  While they they are addressing it, it would be nice to have
a means of calling statvfs with a timeout or always have statvfs
interruptable (even if mounted hard w/o intr).

One kernel goal should be to allow someone to lose a mount or USB device,
and still be able to kill any running jobs/modules, but not have to 
reboot the
computer (NFS yesterday on one machine, USB today on another).

>if you want a way to do a "df" without hanging your client,
>try using a soft mount with a short-ish timeout for your
>df requests.
>  
>
I had to go with the hard mount command due to the type of NFS
server I have to access (legacy system).

>caveat:  read the Linux NFS FAQ for more on using "soft" safely.
>  
>
Thanks.  I will. 

Do you think that doing a showmount before doing a df would be
a safe approach for now?

    showmount -e <server>
    if it fails
       return error code
    else
       df <mount point>

Thanks,
--
Wade Hampton


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