Some say you should never use soft mounts if you value your data.
mounting intr would proably suffice.
You could also try umount -f.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:30:44PM -0400, Ward William E DLDN wrote:
> Softmounts
>
> man nfs
>
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> Past experience has taught me that if an NFS server happens to go
> down for whatever reason (and then restarted), the machines connected to
> it will be in a state of 'being stuck' and the only way to fix that is
> to either try to unmount those NFS volumes, and remount them, or to
> restart the client (which solves the problem all together).
>
> Is there any better mechanism to check for things like this
> automatically? If the NFS server gets rebooted, or the connection died
> long enough for the clients to lose it. What can be done? Is there any
> specific way I should set the clients up to reconnect or something?
>
> For that matter, if and when the NFS server goes down, is there any
> way of telling the clients to stop trying to use that particular mounted
> volume, and switch to a local (mirrored) partition till the NFS server
> comes back up?
>
> AMK4
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