Subject: Re: kern/29881: umount stale NFS volume blocks deadly
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Denis Lagno <dlagno@rambler.ru>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/04/2005 23:36:09
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:12:02PM +0000, Manuel Bouyer scribed:
>  > I mount NFS volume, then for some reason I lose the network.  Then umount this volume just blocks.
>  > So if I reboot, it stops in "Unmounting file systems" and no progress ever seen.
>  
>  This is the proper behavior. Unless mounted -o soft, the client has to wait for
>  the server to come back.

Then probably shutdown script should remount NFS volumes as soft, and then umount them.
Or something like that..
Anyway it seems weird that umount -f cannot forcibly umount filesystem.