keep nfs in contact

Hello,
My home-directory is located on a server and mounted with nfs. Some times, I
do some maintenance on the server, and then, I reboot it. Thereafter, the
"mount" command on the client still tells that "/home" is mounted, but in
fact, it is inaccessible. Also "umount /home" refuses its services,
claiming that /home would be busy. Only a reboot on the client helps to get
the connection again.

Is there a smarter way to restore the connection? Can it be done
automatically?

For your information
the "server" is a buffalo Linkstation II, "completet" according to the
wiki-recipe.
The "client" is a workstation with SuSE 10.1 and KDE
fstab looks as follows:
buffalo:/mnt/hda/home /home nfs hard,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,rw,acl 0 0

Thanks for your help. Fabio Vassalli

In comp.os.linux.networking fabio vassalli <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hello,
> My home-directory is located on a server and mounted with nfs. Some times, I
> do some maintenance on the server, and then, I reboot it. Thereafter, the
> "mount" command on the client still tells that "/home" is mounted, but in
> fact, it is inaccessible. Also "umount /home" refuses its services,
> claiming that /home would be busy. Only a reboot on the client helps to get
> the connection again.

> Is there a smarter way to restore the connection? Can it be done
> automatically?

Yep, try 'man mount' and look for the "soft" and "bg" option,
this might help.

Good luck

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