Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [NFS] NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)? | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:24:41 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:20 -0700, Chakri n wrote: > Thanks. > > I was using flock (BSD locking) and I think the problem should be > solved if I move my application to use POSIX locks.
Yup.
> And any option to avoid processes waiting indefinitely to free pages > from NFS requests waiting on unresponsive NFS server?
The only solution I know of is to use soft mounts, but that brings another set of problems: 1. most applications don't know how to recover safely from an EIO error. 2. You lose data.
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