vdump and NFS

From: Horsnell T. <tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:53:01 +0000 (GMT)

Hi all,
I'm at TU64 V5.0a PK3.
If I try and use vdump to dump a filesystem which
contains mount points on which are mounted NFS filesystems
whose server is down, vdump hangs. Is this to be expected?
The filesystems are mounted with the '-o hard' option.
Should I really be doing this in single-user mode?

I can work around this by 'umount -f' on the offending
filesystems (then I have to remember to re-mount them at
some later date) but why doesnt vdump recognise the mount-point
as such, and refrain from accessing what's mounted on it?

Cheers,
Terry.




Terry Horsnell (tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
I.T. Manager
Medical Research Council
Lab of Molecular Biology
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CAMBRIDGE CB2 2QH
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