Bug 6516 - nfs client locks df and other things when server machine dies
Summary: nfs client locks df and other things when server machine dies
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: nfs-server
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-29 20:52 UTC by maxfield
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-30 13:02:58 UTC
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Description maxfield 1999-10-29 20:52:54 UTC 
I have two machines, imaginatively called "one" and "nine"
:)

 nine exported / to one, with no_root_squash.

 one mounted nine under directory nine.
mount -t nfs nine:/ /nine

  nine was powered down.

  one's load went up to over 16, as users ran "df"
occasionally. df never exited. I tried to unmount /nine as
root.  That process hung forever.  I was forced to reboot
the machine.  It took quite a while for the nfs services on
one to shut down.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-10-30 13:02:59 UTC 
This is not a bug, but typical behavior when an NFS server goes down.
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