From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net>
Subject: Re: Re: broken umount -f
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:27:13 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> >>>>> " " == Scott Mcdermott <smcdermott@questra.com> writes:
> 
>      > Last I checked, the programs wouldn't die even with -KILL when
>      > they were stuck in device-wait state.
> 
> They will if you mount with 'intr', and make sure that you kill *all*
> programs that are using that mountpoint.

I can honestly say that I end up rebooting more than 80% of the time when 
the server goes away.  Believe me, I've tried everything including taking 
the system down to single-user mode and killing everything not bolted to 
the kernel <g>.  

Steve




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