[PLUG] How to umount NFS hung mouts

[Jeff Schwaber]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:20, Russ Johnson wrote:
> * Alex Daniloff <alex at daniloff.com> [2003-08-13 09:44]:
> > Could somebody tell me please
> > how to safely umount locally mounted NFS share
> > when remote NFS server is down?
> > Rebooting local machine is not an option in my case.
> 
> This is the reason that I've been shying away from Linux for file
> serving. If an NFS server (linux) goes down, then you end up with stale
> mounts. 

What's a better solution?

Because I agree, NFS can really suck when servers aren't reliable, but
samba has its own problems, and I'm not sure what other methods there
are that can reliably share directories/trees.

Jeff