Re: NFS hangs on 2.1.115

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:20:02 +0100 (BST)

> I tried running 2.1.115 yesterday, but found that I couldn't NFS mount
> anything - the mount program just hung uninterruptibly, as did the amd
> automounter. I also found I couldn't reboot successfully as the kernel hung in
> the unmounting phase (no suprise there).

Right now if the NFS mount hangs during mount you are screwed. The hung
process sits holding the semaphore used for mount/umount.

At the moment you can't interrupt synchronous RPC calls with the current
kernel rpc code. Its on my NFS list still. I need to work out why Olaf
put if ( 0 && in front of the relevant test

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