From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: race-free exportfs and unmount?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:20:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140321202040.GC26831@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532C9E49.2030007@windriver.com>
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:17:13PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There was a linux-nfs thread in July 2012 with the subject "Linux
> NFS and cached properties". It discussed the fact that you can't
> reliably do
>
> exportfs -u 192.168.1.11:/mnt
> umount /mnt
>
> since there could be rpc users still running when exportfs returns,
> so the umount fails thinking the filesystem is busy.
There could also be clients holding opens, locks, or delegations on the
export.
> I'm running into this on a production system.
>
> Was anything ever done to resolve this issue?
> If not are there any workarounds?
You can shut down the server completely, unmount, and restart.
What is it you need to do exactly?
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-21 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-21 20:17 race-free exportfs and unmount? Chris Friesen
2014-03-21 20:20 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2014-03-21 20:56 ` Chris Friesen
2014-03-22 10:11 ` Larry Keegan
2014-03-21 22:58 ` Chris Friesen
2014-03-21 23:09 ` NeilBrown
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