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From: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com>
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Uttered Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu>, spake thus:

> that problem was linked to the fact that nfs-mounted directory became
> unavailable... 
> Any ideas on how to further debug this situation to avoid future
> problems?

This is the required behavior for "hard" NFS mounts.  NFS doesn't
deal with servers that drop off-line very well.

Perhaps you should use the "soft" and/or the "timeo=N" value.  A
"soft" mount will not cause your client to hang if the server goes
away.  Unfortunately, this also has implications for application
program's ideas about file integrity, but there you go.

HTH.
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