Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:15:47 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle Message-ID: <199601120915.LAA02812@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199601120905.KAA17243@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from "Thomas Gellekum" at Jan 12, 96 10:05:41 am
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> > John Hay wrote: > > > > This is with FreeBSD-2.1 as client and a Netware (NFS) server. I believe the > > handle is stale (They changed disks without telling us beforehand), but I > > cannot get it unmounted, not even with umount -f which I would have thought > > should force it. At the moment it looks like I will have to reboot the > > FreeBSD machines to clear the problem. > > Could you try the different names for the mount point (`umount > host:/dir' and `umount /dir')? I had a similar problem once (server > linux, client FreeBSD) and one of those invocations worked while the > other didn't. > That did it! The umount host:/dir works. Thankyou. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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