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Message-Id: <1190391881.6680.73.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:24:41 -0400
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To: Chakri n <chakriin5@...il.com>
Cc: nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)?
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:20 -0700, Chakri n wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I was using flock (BSD locking) and I think the problem should be
> solved if I move my application to use POSIX locks.
Yup.
> And any option to avoid processes waiting indefinitely to free pages
> from NFS requests waiting on unresponsive NFS server?
The only solution I know of is to use soft mounts, but that brings
another set of problems:
1. most applications don't know how to recover safely from an EIO
error.
2. You lose data.
Cheers
Trond
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