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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Deadlocking issue with sshfs and nfs

Okay, I've used both sshfs and nfs for remotely accessing the home partition on my fileserver, but I have been having a problem where the networking on the server suddenly cuts out.  Any processes that are accessing the folder I mounted nfs/sshfs with become deadlocked.  Any processes that try access my home directory, where the remote folder sits, are also deadlocked.  I cannot get into the machine with ssh.  I have to manually reboot it in order to get any networking at all.

I have to also force-kill any known processes that are accessing the remote folder, and if I don't know what they are, I have to forcibly unmount it.  This issue has been occuring with this specific fileserver since I got it.  It is running Arch Linux i686, but has had the same problem with the server editions of both Fedora and Ubuntu.

I don't know where to begin with fixing this problem, nor do I know how to diagnose it.

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Lord of Maelstrom

briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: Deadlocking issue with sshfs and nfs

Consider "soft" mount option for NFS.

Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Re: Deadlocking issue with sshfs and nfs

Okay, I'll try that.

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Lord of Maelstrom