Re: problems with soft-nfs when the server goes down

From: Claus Guttesen <kometen_at_gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:00:06 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:38 UTC

> Now my NFS-nt is running 6-CURRENT and my NFS-server still runs 5.4
> When the server gets unavailable, the proccesses on the client will lock
> - OK so far.
> The problematic thing is, after the server is back online, I still see no
> way to get the locked processes back to continue. They are still in heir
> NFS-lock. All I can do is reboot the system. That only happens when I
> mount the nfs filesystem with "soft".

Do you tcp- or udp-mount? AFAIK tcp-mount's don't work properly in 6.0
(current).

regards
Claus