From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:26:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:26:29 -0400 Received: from [216.151.155.121] ([216.151.155.121]:22277 "EHLO belphigor.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:26:10 -0400 To: Roland Kuhn Cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? In-Reply-To: From: Doug McNaught Date: 01 Jun 2001 12:25:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: Roland Kuhn's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:17:28 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland Kuhn 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