Thank you very much for the provided information. I am asking because I want to implement an centralized clamav mail scanner, which AFAIK would work, only if I mount the directories in which the mail is scanned on the server. First I mounted the directories on the server so the clamav client is actually NFS server. Then I realized that I do not know what will happen if the clamav client / NFS server will crash. The behavior which you described (for hard mounted directories) will work just fine. Thanks for your time. On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:11 +0000, Jamie Border wrote: > s/kill killed/is killed/g > > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:11:17 +0000, Jamie Border <jborder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Venelin > > > > It Depends :-) > > > > Assuming hard mounting (see link below), > > > > The client machine will behave normally until a process on the client > > tries to open a file on the nfs server. It will then block (hang) > > until either: > > > > 1) The nfs server is up and running again > > 2) The client process kill killed (kill -KILL <processid>) > > > > You could get round this by soft-mounting the nfs share, but this will > > probably break software using files over it. > > > > For more info, see: > > > > http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/client.html#SOFT-VS-HARD > > > > Or try searching for "nfs server crash" on google. > > > > Hope this helps > > > > Jamie > > > > > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:50:42 +0200, Venelin Mihaylov <venelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello list :), > > > I have the following question: > > > What will happen when an NFS server crashes while a client has mount a > > > NFS directory from that server ? > > > > > > -- > > > Venelin Mihaylov, CCNA > > > System Administrator > > > HostColor LLC > > > > > > - > > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > -- Venelin Mihaylov, CCNA System Administrator HostColor LLC - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
