Re: Can't unmount broken nfs mount

Karel Zak
2014-02-17T12:19:47Z

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:25:05PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Forwarding from debian bug #711183:
>
> User reports that a broken nfs mount has its mounted directory in
> /proc/mounts renamed from /foo to /foo\040(deleted) when an nfs mount
> is broken due to an unreachable server, and this prevents unmounting
> it since umount can not find "/foo" in /proc/mounts. Is this a kernel
> bug, or something that umount needs to work around?

I have improved the mountinfo libmount parser, now it removes the
"\040(deleted)" from the target path. You can try it with NFS.

Karel

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