Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265755AbUFIMXS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261425AbUFIMXS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:23:18 -0400 Received: from wombat.indigo.net.au ([202.0.185.19]:24078 "EHLO wombat.indigo.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265755AbUFIMUn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:20:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:15:02 +0800 (WST) From: raven@themaw.net To: Trond Myklebust cc: Andy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS and umount -f In-Reply-To: <1086710357.3896.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Message-ID: References: <20040608155414.GA3975@thumper2> <1086710357.3896.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-0.7, required 8, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, NO_REAL_NAME, RCVD_IN_ORBS, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_PINE) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 30 On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote: > P? ty , 08/06/2004 klokka 11:54, skreiv Andy: > > Why does this NOT do what is should be doing, i.e. umount no matter what? > > > > Sometimes I get > > > > umount2 : Stale NFS file handle > > umount : machine/path: Illegal seek > > > > and it does not umount it. > > > > What part of > > -f "Force unmount (in case of unreachable NFS system)" (umount man page) > > > > does linux not understand? > > Works for me... And doesn't always work unconditionaly on other OSes either. So maybe that's life. Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/