From: spam@altium.nl (Dick Streefland)
From: rnews@altium.nl
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid rebooting Linux NFS-client when NFS-server is not available?
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:03:27 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f01.51efd09f.c2ac3@altium.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130724091856.GA30866@pfmaster
Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de> wrote:
| We've researched this question for quite a while now and nobody here
| found a solution to the following problem:
|
| 1: A Linux computer is NFS client of some other Linux NFS server
| and has some active mounts and some processes working with files
| on that NFS server.
|
| 2: Now the NFS server becomes unavailable and a system administrator
| wants to clean up the situation on the NFS client computer without
| having to reboot this client computer.
|
| Is this possible? And if how exactly?
What you could try is temporarily add the IP number of the dead NFS
server to another NFS server. The other NFS server should reject any
request for the dead mount, and the client can continue with an error.
--
Dick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-24 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 9:18 How to avoid rebooting Linux NFS-client when NFS-server is not available? Peter Funk
2013-07-24 11:24 ` Jeff Layton
2013-07-24 13:03 ` Dick Streefland, rnews [this message]
2013-07-26 12:08 ` Peter Funk
2013-07-26 14:31 ` Michael Richardson
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2017-06-08 8:49 devzero
2017-06-08 13:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-06-09 3:17 ` NeilBrown
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