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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?
Date: 01 Jun 2001 12:25:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wv6w417k.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106011808310.13429-100000@pc40.e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: Roland Kuhn's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:17:28 +0200 (CEST)"

Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> Hi folks!
> 
> When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
> received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

If it's a hard nfs mount, yes.  Mount soft if you want timeouts.

-Doug
-- 
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time...          --Dylan

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-01 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-01 16:17 [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? Roland Kuhn
2001-06-01 16:25 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2001-06-01 17:45 ` Alan Cox

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