XPost: alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   On 26/01/14 19:02, William Unruh wrote:   
   > I am unable to force umount   
   > umount -f /mangeia   
   > from a dead server that serves that directory. Furthermore, the dead nfs   
   > mount means that ls / and find / -maxdepth 1 refuse to complete and just   
   > hang (although echo /* does print out all the names of the   
   > files/directories in /)   
   > I thought umount -f was supposed to force an umount from a dead server   
   > but it seems that only way to get rid of them is to reboot. That is a   
   > pretty non-unix thing to have to do.   
      
   Yes, deaf NFS server has always been a tricky thing when using Linux   
   clients, but I think it got better in the 3.x kernels, at least when you   
   had low disk load on the NFS shares, then rebooting the server was   
   possible (old days reboot of server used to mean reboot all the clients   
   too).   
      
   I usually have the following options in fstab:   
      
   rw,bg,soft,timeo=100,intr,async   
      
   If you want unix with good NFS clients, then it's Solaris you have to go   
   with, but it's slow and bloated.   
      
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