Re: force umount [was Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002]

Denis Vlasenko
2002-01-24T13:04:26Z

> > > Can I kill the processes accessing busy
> > > filesystems? [That was big point of force umount, I believe.]
> >
> > Huh? If process is killable - it's killable. What does it have to
> > --force?
>
> Following situation used to be common and "not a bug":
>
> process a tries to read /nfs/foo, but nfs server dies.
>
> kill -9 a does not kill a.
>
> It used to be "not a bug" before. Can we declare it a bug after umount
> /nfs --force?

After more than a year on lkml I still don't understand why it's not a bug.
Anyway, I always mount NFS with hard,intr and my processes are killable...
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