Hi,

We are using two NetApp F630's which replicate each other so that in the event of failure of one, the clients using that one can be switched over.

We are using HP clients so would like to run fuser -ck to kill the processes hanging on the dead mount points. Unfortunately this does not work since fuser first attempts to stat the mount point and then seems to hang indefinately.

We can kill the processes manually, but putting the list of "dead" processes together is going to be difficult without fuser. We thought of running fuser at regular points throughout the day while both servers are available and using this list of processes, but this is not a guaranteed way of capturing everything.

Does anyone have any ideas ? Does lsof behave better on hung nfs mount points ?

Many thanks

Julie Stephen Vodafone Ltd. UK.