--On 9. September 2011 10:27:22 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> On the whole I think you'd be better off lobbying your NFS implementors
> to provide something closer to the behavior of every other filesystem on
> the planet.  Or checking to see if you need to adjust your NFS
> configuration, as the other responders mentioned.

You really need at least mount options 'hard' _and_ 'nointr' on NFS mounts, 
otherwise you are out of luck. Oracle and DB2 guys recommend those settings and 
without them any millisecond of network glitch could disturb things 
unreasonably.

-- 
Thanks

	Bernd

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