* [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? @ 2001-06-01 16:17 Roland Kuhn 2001-06-01 16:25 ` Doug McNaught 2001-06-01 17:45 ` Alan Cox 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Roland Kuhn @ 2001-06-01 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel 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? Please help, Roland ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? 2001-06-01 16:17 [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? Roland Kuhn @ 2001-06-01 16:25 ` Doug McNaught 2001-06-01 17:45 ` Alan Cox 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Doug McNaught @ 2001-06-01 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Roland Kuhn; +Cc: linux-kernel 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? 2001-06-01 16:17 [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4? Roland Kuhn 2001-06-01 16:25 ` Doug McNaught @ 2001-06-01 17:45 ` Alan Cox 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Alan Cox @ 2001-06-01 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Roland Kuhn; +Cc: linux-kernel > 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? Yes. Unless you made the mount with -o soft. The box will wait until the server comes back ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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