[PLUG] How to umount NFS hung mouts

[Steven A. Adams]

> If your network is as well-designed as you say, then mounting
> hard instead of soft should not cause any problems, therefore you
> should mount hard so that programs don't silently fail.
> 

I'm really not too sure why you would question this but you can rest
assure that when I say networks I do mean network(S) - there have been
many.

> Programs silently fail because NFS changes some of the basic
> assumptions about Unix file I/O, and most programmers don't spend
> much time writing code that checks for conditions they think are
> impossible.
> 

Interesting assertion, now qualify it with fact.

> Well, NFS has been around for a couple years now, maybe
> everyone's learned new programming habits and fixed all the old
> programs already.  Someone should check.

A couple of years? Take a look at RFC 1904 dated March of 1989.