Peter Funk <pf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | We've researched this question for quite a while now and nobody here | found a solution to the following problem: | | 1: A Linux computer is NFS client of some other Linux NFS server | and has some active mounts and some processes working with files | on that NFS server. | | 2: Now the NFS server becomes unavailable and a system administrator | wants to clean up the situation on the NFS client computer without | having to reboot this client computer. | | Is this possible? And if how exactly? What you could try is temporarily add the IP number of the dead NFS server to another NFS server. The other NFS server should reject any request for the dead mount, and the client can continue with an error. -- Dick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html