APM: checking stale nfs mounts with PERL

[Wayne Walker]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:08:53AM -0800, Martie Knauss wrote:
> I'm modifying a script that copies files to a mounted
> file system.  For some reason, the file system mount
> point goes stale and prevents the script from
> successfully copying the file out. I've added some
> error checking in the code to make sure the file
> system is there and write-able but I'd like to just
> re-mount the file system if it's gone stale and go
> ahead and copy the file out.  Any suggestions?

Just always run:

mount -o remount /mnt/foo

Can't remember if that will really work for stale NFSs or not.  Don't
have any NFS where I am right now.

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