> Oh - to further clarify - the exact equivalent symptoms (/bin/mount being > frozen for 13 hours, requiring kill -9 to clear the condition) happened on > all three machines. So, it wasn't a one off. If I reboot the machines one by > one - there are some 10 second pauses (expected) but everything is ok. It's > if the reboots are within seconds of each other, and the mount occurs when > no servers are up (although I don't think it is tcp/ip wait, and all of the > machines should be on the network by this point in the boot process, so it > should be an immediate Connection Refused?), that the /bin/mount gets locked > up. Oh BTW, do you fetch the spec from a server at mount time, or use a locally placed volfile? Avati