Subject: Re: kern/29881: umount stale NFS volume blocks deadly
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Denis Lagno <dlagno@rambler.ru>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/04/2005 19:37:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/29881; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Denis Lagno <dlagno@rambler.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/29881: umount stale NFS volume blocks deadly
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:36:09 +0400
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.