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- From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
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- Subject: Re: Forced NFS umount (was: Recvfrom() in an inetd server)
- Keywords: n
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.220619.4444@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 22:06:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: coe.1992Jul20.220619.4444
- References: <1992Jul19.221910.5437@massey.ac.nz> <1992Jul20.165940@is.morgan.com>
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- Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University
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- In article <1992Jul20.165940@is.morgan.com> sergei@is.morgan.com (Sergei Poliakoff) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul19.221910.5437@massey.ac.nz>, A.Raman@massey.ac.nz (Anand) writes:
- >|> Hello,
- >|>
- >|> I had written a server to automatically mount/unmount NFS partitions
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >|> when the server they are locally mounted on comes up or goes down. I
- >
- >The beginnning sounds intriguing, but I need to be enlightened here :
- >is forced NFS umount() against the non-responding server possible,
- >practically or protocol-theoretically ?
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- Normally 'umount /mnt_point' will wait for acknoledgement from the
- server before it returns. If however, the filesystem was mounted
- with the -f flag, umount will not wait for acknowledgment. (At
- least it works this way on an Ultrix box.)
-
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