[tech] NFS mounts

[Grahame Bowland]

Hiho,

Morwong allows anybody to mount /mirror read-only. So I tried this from home 
- the mount worked and it seemed to work. However, if I go to a directory 
with quite a few files and do an 'ls' the command hangs, probably on a syscall.
It doesn't return, even after twenty or thirty minutes.

Unmounting it is quite difficult too - at one point Linux wouldn't let me 
unmount it at all, with 'device is busy' errors. Of course it doesn't support 
forced unmount's because they're useful - if only I was running FreeBSD ;)

Any ideas why NFS doesn't work over a slow (modem) link?

Cheers,
Grahame

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