Re: [bug report] NFS and uninterruptable wait states

[Peter Wächtler]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> 
[ "mount -tnfs" with hard has default ]
 
> Anyhow, about an hour later ( the mount process still stuck ) I figured out
> that the other machine was not running rpc.nfsd, though it was running
> rpc.mountd.  Once I started rpc.nfsd on the machine, the mount on my box
> finally returned ( and was terminated by the SIGKILL that I sent it an hour
> before ).
> 
> Could someone confirm that this is a bug, and explain why anything should
> ever need to wait in that state?
> 
Well, if you use the option "soft",then your process is interruptible.

Where this gets really impractical: commands like df or du will
hang forever (if the other end is out of your control).