Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is this the correct list for NFS probs (2.2.x kernels) ? | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 24 May 1999 19:59:47 +0200 |
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Dave Airlie <airlied@csn.ul.ie> writes:
> I've been able to do this at some stages , I'm not sure how much of forced > umount works but when I was messing around with NFS/TCP code, I remember > being able to umount -f the disk which killed any processes in the D > state, > > Not sure though if the server is gone down what happens, my case was I had > hosed parts of it .. > > Dave. > > > On Mon, 24 May 1999, G. Allen Morris III wrote: > > > It would be nice if it was possible to force an unmount of > > nfs mounts. This may even be in the works. > >
The thing to remember is that this is likely to leave the nfs client (and possibly the RPC layer) in a bad state, with writebacks and requests left in a limbo state. We need to do quite some work before this sort of thing becomes a 'safe' alternative.
Cheers, Trond
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