Subject: Re: Unmounting disappeared NFS mounts
To: Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/15/2002 20:57:36
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:07:40PM -0800, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> 
> And it hangs. And since this hangs, the suspend doesn't finish, and
> so the laptop doesn't turn off. Killing the /etc/apm/suspend script
> will allow it to shutdown. And they don't seem to time out; I can
> only get these to complete by re-connecting to the net (or rebooting,
> of course).

You can soft mount instead of hard mount - then you get a timeout resulting
in an I/O error, instead of indefinite waiting for the server to reappear.

However, this applies to _any_ access, not just last-contact-before-unmounting,
so use with care.

Regards,
	-is