Shut-down when access to NFS share is gone

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu> wrote:

>
> I managed to shut down a machine with an NFS share before the connected
> client was shut down.
>
> Now this client won't shut down. It stands at : All buffers synced.
>
> I suspect it's waiting for the NFS server in order to disconnect.
>
> Is there any time-out I must wait for? Will it help to bring the NFS
> server back up?
>
> Can I in anyway tell such a client to ignore such an error?
>

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nfs&sektion=8

If the server becomes unresponsive while an NFS file system is mounted,
     any new or outstanding file operations on that file system will hang
     uninterruptibly until the server comes back.  To modify this default be-
     haviour, see the *intr* and *soft* options.


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Adam Vande More