[CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

Thu Jan 27 07:54:41 UTC 2011
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:

> I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues
> while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain
> automount maps and run the risk of issues with the automounter (I've
> seen large production environments in which the OOM killer would
> arbitrarily select processes to kill ....).

Once you're into an OOM state, you're screwed anyway.  Is turning off
overcommit a sane option these days or not?

jh