Autofs timeout?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 07:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:40 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm using autofs+nfs combo on all my workstations.
> > These machine are also used for software testing and crash a -lot-.
> > Problem is - both nfs and autofs are notorious for going zombie once the
> > host server dies.
> > 
> > Any idea how I can get the nfs-client (and/or the autofs) to time-out
> > gracefully / error out, when the nfs server dies instead of just hanging
> > till the end of time?
> ----
> what's the host server?  RHEL?  CentOS?
> 
> Is this your issue?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453094
> 
> Craig
> 

Sorry for the late reply.
Problem with both RHEL, CentOS and Fedora.

Kill the host, the autofs/nfs clients go zombie.

- Gilboa