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From: Salah Coronya <salah.coronya@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:51:58 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20070821T034654-315@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070820233414.GM3956@digitalkingdom.org

Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell <at> digitalkingdom.org> writes:


> > Though I agree that it would be nice if we could convince all
> > subsequent requests to a server to fail EIO instead of just the
> > currently active ones.  I'm not sure that just changing "umount
> > -f" is the right interface though....  Maybe if all the server
> > handles appeared in sysfs and have an attribute which you could
> > set to cause all requests to fail...
> 
> I have no opinion on interface details, I simply know that on
> Solaris, "umount -f" Just Works, and I would love to have similar
> behaviour on Linux.
> 
> -Robin
> 

What you are looing is revoke()/frevokeat(); which will yank the file right from
under the descriptor. Its currently in -mm. Of course "mount" will still need to
iterate over each open file on the mount and revoke it.




  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20 22:54 NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-20 23:27 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-20 23:34   ` Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-21  1:51     ` Salah Coronya [this message]
2007-08-21 16:43 ` John Stoffel
2007-08-21 16:55   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-21 17:01   ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-21 17:14     ` Chakri n
2007-08-21 17:14     ` Robin Lee Powell
2007-08-21 17:18       ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-21 18:50     ` John Stoffel
2007-08-21 19:04       ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-21 19:25       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-24 15:09         ` Ric Wheeler
2007-08-24 15:37           ` Peter Staubach
2007-08-24 15:53           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-21 23:04       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-22 10:03         ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-22 15:26         ` John Stoffel
2007-08-31  8:06       ` Ian Kent
2007-08-31 15:10         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-31 15:30           ` Ian Kent

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