From: Wendy Cheng Subject: Re: query about kernel 2.4.21-37.ELsmp Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:39:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1149748767.3379.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060608042448.97900.qmail@web51615.mail.yahoo.com> <1149748501.3379.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.7] helo=sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FoFJe-0007oP-GV for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:54:16 -0700 Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FoE1k-0007fj-RH for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:30:57 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1FoE0o-0006hG-Vl for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:29:00 -0700 To: mehta kiran In-Reply-To: <1149748501.3379.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 02:35 -0400, Wendy Cheng wrote: > 2.2.a Manually unexport filesystem. This is a tricky one. Note that if > kernel still hold the vfsmount reference for the export entry, umount > will fail. The "exportfs -u hostname:/export_path" doesn't necessarily > go into the kernel to delete the export entry (to drop vfsmount > reference count). You have to use either "exportfs -ua" or "exportfs > *:/export_path" to explicitly remove the export entry from RHEL 3 > kernel. I'm famous for my typo :) ... should use "exportfs -u *:/export_path". > 2.2.b Is NFS client holding a posix lock via NLM without releasing it ? > If yes, a quick and dirty way is to send lockd a signal ("kill -9 > lockd"). This will signal lockd to drop the NLM locks (and subsequently > close the file). -- Wendy _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs