Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261839AbUJYOY7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:24:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261837AbUJYOYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:24:55 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:49638 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261395AbUJYOYc (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:24:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:24:02 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Denis Vlasenko cc: Trond Myklebust , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Temporary NFS problem when rpciod is SIGKILLed In-Reply-To: <200410251702.58622.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Message-ID: References: <200410251702.58622.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 27 >Hi Trond. > >I observed a problem with NFS root in 2.6 kernel >(actually it was a 2.5 back then). Does it also happen on 2.4? >I am using NFS root. At shutdown, when I kill >all processes with killall5 -9, NFS temporarily >misbehaves. I narrowed it down to rpciod feeling >bad when signalled with SIGKILL: I think this has to do that you kill some userspace application that is necessary for NFS. I am not exactly sure which one it is (if at all), but I have had problems mounting an NFS volume when started with -b option (mounting the root however was done ok by the kernel) Jan Engelhardt -- Gesellschaft f?r Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Am Fassberg, 37077 G?ttingen, www.gwdg.de - 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/