From fenner@parc.xerox.com Mon Jun 2 11:45:43 1997 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05098 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fenestro.parc.xerox.com ([13.0.208.199]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <19896(1)>; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:22:19 PDT Received: (from fenner@localhost) by fenestro.parc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id KAA04819; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706021722.KAA04819@fenestro.parc.xerox.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:22:37 PDT From: Bill Fenner Reply-To: fenner@parc.xerox.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: df hangs uninterruptably when nfs mount from down server X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 3763 >Category: bin >Synopsis: df hangs uninterruptably when nfs mount from down server >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 2 11:50:01 PDT 1997 >Closed-Date: Sun Apr 12 04:46:53 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: Sun Apr 12 04:47:23 PDT 1998 >Originator: Bill Fenner >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: Xerox >Environment: FreeBSD 3.0-Current as of 5/20/97 nfs-mounting one filesystem from a sun running SunOS 4.1.3_U1 across an ethernet. >Description: When the sun's filesystem is mounted and the sun is down, "df" hangs uninterruptably. # df ^C^Z^\ % ps axl | grep df 0 26409 10351 0 -1 0 208 76 nfsrcv D+ p0 0:00.00 df -k 5275 4316 2590 0 -1 0 208 8 nfsrcv D+ p4 0:00.00 df -k % mount | grep nectar nectar:/nectar on /nectar/nectar >How-To-Repeat: Mount a remote filesystem from a sun running SunOS 4.1.3, then halt the fileserver and run "df" (or "cd" or...) on the remotely mounted filesystem. >Fix: unknown. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: Luigi Rizzo To: fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/3763: df hangs uninterruptably when nfs mount from down server Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:47:49 +0200 (MET DST) > >Synopsis: df hangs uninterruptably when nfs mount from down server isn't that a feature ? I have always seen this on our Ultrix systems and on previous versions of FreeBSD. Perhaps you can solve the problem by using some flags (soft?) in the mount call ? Luigi State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: phk State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 12 04:46:53 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: working as designed, "Don't do that then". >Unformatted: