On Monday August 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (cc's to me appreciated) > > It would be really, really nice if "umount -f" against a hung NFS > mount actually worked on Linux. As much as I hate Solaris, I > consider it the gold standard in this case: If I say > "umount -f /mount/that/is/hung" it just goes away, immediately, and > anything still trying to use it dies (with EIO, I'm told).
Have you tried "umount -l"? How far is that from your requirements? Alternately: mount --move /problem/path /somewhere/else umount -f /somewhere/else umount -l /somewhere/else might be a little closer to what you want. Though I agree that it would be nice if we could convince all subsequent requests to a server to fail EIO instead of just the currently active ones. I'm not sure that just changing "umount -f" is the right interface though.... Maybe if all the server handles appeared in sysfs and have an attribute which you could set to cause all requests to fail... NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
