From: Scott Mcdermott <smcdermott@questra.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Re: broken umount -f
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:19:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114191953.GJ26872@questra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shs8yxn5z6m.fsf@charged.uio.no>
Trond Myklebust on Tue 14/01 20:06 +0100:
> Linux will not allow you to unmount without killing those processes,
> and I'd be opposed to any patch that tries to kill active processes
> from within the filesystem. This is something that needs to be
> resolved in userland.
Last I checked, the programs wouldn't die even with -KILL when they were
stuck in device-wait state. The only way to reboot a machine with such
processes is to reboot -f, which is wrong. The filesystems should be
able to have forced umount at sysadmin's discretion.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-14 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-14 15:56 [NFS] Re: broken umount -f Lever, Charles
2003-01-14 17:07 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-14 19:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-14 19:19 ` Scott Mcdermott [this message]
2003-01-14 19:32 ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-14 19:35 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-14 22:17 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-14 22:29 ` Steven N. Hirsch
2003-01-14 22:27 ` Steven N. Hirsch
2003-01-14 19:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-01-14 19:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-14 19:56 ` Benjamin LaHaise
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-14 19:30 Cole, Timothy D.
2003-01-14 19:36 Lever, Charles
2003-01-15 5:19 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-15 5:21 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-14 19:49 Cole, Timothy D.
2003-01-15 14:45 Lever, Charles
2003-01-15 16:32 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-15 15:35 Murata, Dennis W (SAIC)
2003-01-15 17:04 Lever, Charles
2003-01-15 17:23 ` Scott Mcdermott
[not found] ` <20030115130759.B11894@ti19>
2003-01-15 18:22 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-01-15 18:24 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-16 20:49 ` Ion Badulescu
2003-01-15 18:46 Cole, Timothy D.
2003-01-15 19:59 Broken " Heflin, Roger A.
2003-01-16 3:37 ` Scott Mcdermott
2003-01-16 19:45 Cole, Timothy D.
2003-01-16 19:56 ` Scott Mcdermott
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