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From: raven@themaw.net
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andy <genanr@emsphone.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS and umount -f
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:15:02 +0800 (WST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406092013360.2821@donald.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086710357.3896.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> På ty , 08/06/2004 klokka 11:54, skreiv Andy:
> > Why does this NOT do what is should be doing, i.e. umount no matter what?
> > 
> > Sometimes I get 
> > 
> > umount2 : Stale NFS file handle
> > umount : machine/path: Illegal seek
> > 
> > and it does not umount it.
> > 
> > What part of
> >  -f "Force unmount (in case of unreachable NFS system)" (umount man page)
> > 
> > does linux not understand?
> 
> Works for me...

And doesn't always work unconditionaly on other OSes either. 

So maybe that's life.

Ian


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 15:54 Andy
2004-06-08 15:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-09 12:15   ` raven [this message]
2004-06-23 23:42   ` [PATCH] retry force umount (was Re: NFS and umount -f) Daniel McNeil
2004-06-23 23:47     ` viro
2004-06-24  0:22       ` Daniel McNeil

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