On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:52:18 +0200
Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> wrote:


> NFS behaves like that by default - try adding 'intr' to the mount
> options, like this:
> wintermute:/share/media /nfs/media      nfs     rw,soft,bg,intr 0 0
> 
> This causes NFS requests to time out after a certain time instead of
> waiting forever.

I'm sorry, that's how you do it in FreeBSD.
For NetBSD, I think, you have to add '-i' to the mount options.

Kind regards,
Benjamin

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