On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0500, Karl Bongers wrote:
> statelessness is only a matter of degree.
> If its so state-less then how come my machine hangs
> on some NFS daemon when I go to shut-down after forgetting to
> close up a NFS connection?  Geez, thats annoying.

Because you asked it to read something from that server and it is doing
just that: sending requests to that server.

> Anyone know some configuration magic to avoid this?
> Anyway to gracefully deal with this when it happens without
> just slamming power off?

RTFM: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/client.html

florin

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