Karsten wrote:
Not sure if I'm confusing NFS with Samba, but IIRC there's a mount flag that will allow remote file accesses to time out. This should avoid your hung I/O processes in future.
Soft-mounting NFS risks file corruption. Hard-mounting NFS risks hangs.
Thus: [link|http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lecture-notes/nisnfs|Nightmare File System]. Voila!
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com