Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

From: Doug McNaught (doug@wireboard.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 12:25:03 EDT

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Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> Hi folks!
>
> When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not
> received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way?

If it's a hard nfs mount, yes. Mount soft if you want timeouts.

-Doug

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