bdf stucks on NFS client because NFS Server down

[Thamm]

Hello,
we had the problem that the bdf command on a nfs-client stuck because the nfs-server was crushed.
What would happen, if we had used a "soft" NFS-mount command (e.g. the following options in fstab: nfs rw,suid,soft,retry=2 0 0).

Thanks in advance,
Stefan.

[RolandH]

Hi Stefan,

see the manpage mount_nfs and go tp the section hard|soft and Background vs. Foreground
This will really good explain what will happen.

Otherwise, if you not want the disk usage from the NFS mount, then you can use bdf -l. This lists only local filesystems.


HTH
Roland

[T G Manikandan]

Yes,Stefan that is the right option.

For soft nfs mounts the client queries for the server a specified amount of times and then disconnects.

If that were a hard mount then the client queries the server until it gets a connection again.This is the default one.

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
hard option MUST be used if there are executables on it, otherwise you can have strange behaviour and core-dumps.

Massimo