[Gllug] Filesystems again :)

[rich at annexia.org]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:10:19PM +0100, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> actually there is a flag that you can pass to mount to tell the
> kernel not to go into block mode and to pass a signal back the the
> process that the access failed ... that being under freebsd, i do
> not know, however, if there is an equivalent option under linux.
> 
> its set up on my workstation at work, which is at work ...
> so i could look at it tomorrow =)

It's called "intr".

You might also look at soft vs hard mounts.

nfs(5) has a summary of the options.

Rich.

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