From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 12 02:52:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA10467 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 01:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA10109 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 01:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA02812; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:15:47 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199601120915.LAA02812@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle To: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:15:47 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <199601120905.KAA17243@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from "Thomas Gellekum" at Jan 12, 96 10:05:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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