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

Pavel Machek
2002-01-24T12:29:56Z

Hi!

> > 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?
Pavel
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