Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | | Subject | Re: NFS ... | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:32:10 +0100 (MET) |
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"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:" > > > * Another Network at our department is sometimes not working very well. I > > have some filesystems mounted via NFS, but nothing essential. Only data > > mounted on some mountpoint dir and a symlink from my homedir. > > Now, if the network hangs, a ls in my homedir hangs in D state and never > > gives up. Sopmetimes, I am even not able to kill -9 the process. I am never > > able to umount the fs (no process is working with any of the files in the > > NFS mounted dir, BTW). > > 2.1.x supports umount -f - you may need to send a kill to all the processes > and try it a few times but it normally gets you out
Beg to partially differ - I think that was a 2.0.* comment. If so he's probably mounting hard,nointr and also forgetting that rpc.mountd / rpc.nfsd can hold the mount (nfsiod also?) when servicing remote requests. Wholesale local and remote slaughter should free the mount.
Please do correct my insane beliefs if wrong!
Peter
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