Re: unmount -l does not send unmount request to the server

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>]

Le 19/01/2010 17:37, Chuck Lever a =E9crit :
> As far as I understand it, "-l" means the kernel will do the local
> detach from the system's file name space whenever there are no more
> users (ie entirely asynchronously).  I don't think umount2(MNT_DETACH)
> indicates whether the kernel was able to completely unmount that file
> system by the time the call returns, so there's perhaps no way for
> umount.nfs to know whether it should send the UMNT request.  If the
> server is slow or unresponsive, that file system won't be unmounted
> until long after the umount.nfs command has exited.
> =

> This shouldn't be much of a big deal, since the server's rmtab is
> "ornamental" according to the man page.  No one should rely on it being
> accurate.
> =

> A possible way to fix this is to have the kernel send the UMNT.
It makes sense, but it doesn't seem to trigger much interest :)

Should I open a bug somewhere, to ensure the issue won't be forgotten ?
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