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To: Tim Connors <tconnors@astro.swin.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: [NFS] Re: broken umount -f
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 16 Jan 2003 14:17:50 +0100
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>>>>> " " == Tim Connors <tconnors@astro.swin.edu.au> writes:

     > What I have never understood, is that if you are reading a
     > file, or even just in a directory, and the server goes down,
     > and won't come back up (say, you have taken your laptop into
     > work, and forgot to turn off autofs first, after killing all
     > shells that had cd'd to the nfs directory), then you still are
     > destined to have to reboot. You could sever all connections to
     > the nfs server safely, because nothing is being written there
     > (except maybe atime information - but not in the case of a
     > shell being cd'd to an nfs path). But linux won't give up on
     > the connection. Come on, what harm could possibly come to an
     > application that has only readonly files open, or cwd in an NFS
     > path?  No data loss would occur in this situation, so just drop
     > the connection, and return -EIO to anything that then later
     > wants to read a file.

Care to contribute the code?

Cheers,
  Trond
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