Re: So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount" still doesn't work.....

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

woods%planix.com@localhost ("Greg A. Woods") writes:

>So, I should have mentioned that "umount -f nfs.server:/remotefs" does
>work (i.e. it does not hang waiting for the server to reconnect, and
>provided that there are no processes with cwd or open files on the
>remote filesystem, it can unmount the filesystem).

>I.e. the problem is in how umount(8) looks up the parameters of the
>mount point.  If it looks at the mount point it hangs, but if it looks
>through the mount table, it works.

Yes, that's a common issue, not just with NFS. And that's why
umount got a -R option to bypass all the smartness that may
hang.

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