Arun Sharma wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>
>> Which version of autofs are you running? What version of mount(8)?
>>
>
> autofs-3.1.7 and mount-2.11g
>
>> It's possible NFS lets you umount a mount which has busy inodes under
>> certain conditions.
>
>
> Are you thinking of the MNT_FORCE flag ? I have reasons to believe that
> it won't help. Mainly because if it was a RPC task that marked the inode
> busy, it'd have put itself on the waitq of the inode. However I found
> that waitqueue_active(&inode->i_wait) == 0.
>
No, I'm thinking about the possibility that there is a bug.
autofs depends critically on a filesystem *not* allowing itself to be
unmounted when there are busy inodes; however, this is something that
things other than autofs doesn't really stress a whole lot.
-hpa
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