Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Marc Horowitz wrote:
> maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at> writes:
>
> >> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Horowitz wrote:
> >
> >> can you try out if newer 2.6.12 fixed that nfs issue?
> >> http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/
> >
> >> from the client side, but i guess you better update your server side.
>
> I can't update the server side trivially, since it's a production
> fileserver.
from nfs(5):
soft If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report
an I/O error to the calling program. The default is to
continue retrying NFS file operations indefinitely.
So this seems to be a case of "feature, not bug". It'd be great if you
could test this with a soft-mount too.
Regards, David
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