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* How to avoid rebooting Linux NFS-client when NFS-server is not available?
@ 2013-07-24  9:18 Peter Funk
  2013-07-24 11:24 ` Jeff Layton
  2013-07-24 13:03 ` Dick Streefland, rnews
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Peter Funk @ 2013-07-24  9:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nfs

Hello all,

We've researched this question for quite a while now and nobody here
found a solution to the following problem:

 1: A Linux computer is NFS client of some other Linux NFS server
    and has some active mounts and some processes working with files 
    on that NFS server.  

 2: Now the NFS server becomes unavailable and a system administrator 
    wants to clean up the situation on the NFS client computer without 
    having to reboot this client computer.

Is this possible?  And if how exactly?

Best Regards and many thanks in advance, 
Peter Funk
P.S.: umount -f -l did not work  
      System hangs for a long time in shutdown and shutdown 
      only succeeds without hard reset after reconnecting the
      NFS server.
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* Re: How to avoid rebooting Linux NFS-client when NFS-server is not available?
@ 2017-06-08  8:49 devzero
  2017-06-08 13:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
  2017-06-09  3:17 ` NeilBrown
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: devzero @ 2017-06-08  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nfs; +Cc: pf, rnews, jlayton, bfields

>Indeed: This workaround seems to work!

Unfortunately not in every situation.

We have differnt XEN servers (Citrix XS7) at remote location which have hung/stale NFS mount problems at regular intervals (.ISO storage repo is mounted via WAN) and i always need to reboot, which really really(!) sucks.

At least a fake NFS server as described below releases the stuck mount, i.e. df -h and other processes touching do not hang anymore, so at least this workaround helps to some degree... 

BUT:

# umount /run/sr-mount/2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e
umount.nfs: /run/sr-mount/2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e: Stale file handle

# mount|grep xen-sr-iso
172.16.28.10:/mnt/S2V2/xen-sr-iso on /run/sr-mount/2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2147483647,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.16.28.10,mountvers=3,mountport=680,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=172.16.28.10)

# umount -l -f /run/sr-mount/2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e
umount.nfs: /run/sr-mount/2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e: Stale file handle

# mount|grep xen-sr-iso
172.16.28.10:/mnt/S2V2/xen-sr-iso on /run/sr-mount/2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2147483647,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.16.28.10,mountvers=3,mountport=680,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=172.16.28.10)

# ls -la
ls: cannot access 2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e: Stale file handle
total 0
drwx------  3 root root   60 Feb 18 17:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 1660 Jun  7 18:45 ..
d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? 2b5c5c60-3744-c860-28a7-eb106d3a339e

Any hint on how to circumvent rebooting to remount the nfs share or proactively avoid stale NFS mounts would be very appreciated. (disabling NFS by module unload/load is no option, as our XEN servers do have other NFS mounts for shared storage)

regards
Roland

ps:
I`m not sure if linux-nfs ML will allow anonymous posts (probably not), so maybe someone subscribed be so kind to reply with list cc´ed. I`d like to avoid subscribing to a list because of a single post...




>List:       linux-nfs
>Subject:    Re: How to avoid rebooting Linux NFS-client when NFS-server is not available?
>From:       Peter Funk <pf () artcom-gmbh ! de>
>Date:       2013-07-26 12:08:49
>Message-ID: 20130726120849.GA12584 () pfmaster
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>Dick Streefland wrote 24.07.2013 13:03:
>> Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de> wrote:
>> | We've researched this question for quite a while now and nobody here
>> | found a solution to the following problem:
>> | 
>> |  1: A Linux computer is NFS client of some other Linux NFS server
>> |     and has some active mounts and some processes working with files 
>> |     on that NFS server.  
>> | 
>> |  2: Now the NFS server becomes unavailable and a system administrator 
>> |     wants to clean up the situation on the NFS client computer without 
>> |     having to reboot this client computer.
>> | 
>> | Is this possible?  And if how exactly?
>> 
>> What you could try is temporarily add the IP number of the dead NFS
>> server to another NFS server. The other NFS server should reject any
>> request for the dead mount, and the client can continue with an error.
>
>Indeed: This workaround seems to work!
>
>Assume example: The NFS-server has IP 192.168.123.45 and the client
>has also the nfs-kernel-server package installed and it is running.
>Then this sequence on the client did the trick::
>
>    ifconfig eth0:fakesrv 192.168.123.45 up
>    umount -f -l ....
>    umount -f -l ....
>    ....
>    ifconfig eth0:fakesrv down
>
>Best Regards and many thanks for your suggestion,
>Peter Funk

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