From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Detectiong Network and umount / mount NFS
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:19:43 -0400
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to den 21.04.2005 Klokka 00:00 (+0100) skreiv esqueleto@tusofona.com:
> > > There is some way to umount NFS mount points after the system loose the
> > network?
> > not safely...
> 
> Why? There is no Network!! Why the NFS mantain the connection? Should the NFS
> umount the mount points?
> 

Umm... Perhaps because there is a general consensus among NFS developers
that throwing away people's data, and killing off their processes
without their consent might be a bad thing?

If you want that sort of behaviour, then read all about the "soft" mount
option ("man 5 nfs", and http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_d6).

Cheers,
  Trond

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