Thanks to Tom Blinn and Alan Nabeth.
They both pointed out that the problem was because
the NFS filesystems were hard-mounted. Solutions:
1. Soft-mount them (dont want to because they are read/write)
2. umount -f them before starting the dump (a pain because
I then have to remember to remount them)
3. Make sure the server stays up (not under my control)
4. Make a symlink to the real mount-point, and put the
real mount-point somewhere which isnt part of the
vdump set. This has distinct possibilities...
Cheers,
Terry.
Original question:
>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?
Received on Tue Jan 22 2002 - 11:15:35 NZDT