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

From: Mohan Srinivasan <mohan_srinivasan_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:54:44 -0700 (PDT)
FYI - 

I am not able to reproduce the problem in my setup (at least
not easily). So a tcpdump and core would be very helpful.

mohan

--- Oliver Lehmann <lehmann_at_ans-netz.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I belive, everyone who is dealing with NFS knows the following situation:
> 
> Work with a nfs mounted filesystem, while the NFS-server got unavailable
> results in locked processes. That is OK because the processes are
> unlocked again and will continue with their work when the server is back
> online.
> So far so good. That was the situation on all FreeBSD I used before. (3.3
> - 5.4)
> 
> 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".
> 
> olivleh1_at_kartoffel olivleh1> ps auxww | grep bee
> olivleh1   633  0.0  0.9 70980 18668  v0  S    Wed10PM  14:19.21 beep-
> media-player
> 
> When I don't use that option, it continues playing after the server is
> back online.
> 
> 
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Received on Fri Jul 08 2005 - 19:54:45 UTC

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