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Re: NFS



On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:16:18PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:02:12PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:52:53PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > Did you mount with '-o intr' ? If not, it's expected that a process
> > > trying to access a unaccessible NFS mount is unkillable.
> > 
> > I'm using -i but it doesn't seem to help (too much).
> 
> I personally don't think that this is a good idea. I e.g. don't want an
> editor to get an error if the NFS server is unreachable and throw away
> an hours worth of changes as result.

It's not the same as soft mounts. With -i you don't get an error
if the NFS server is unreachable, but the process is still killable
(or course you loose your editor's buffer, just as if you kill -9 it while
working on a local file ...)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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