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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:41:01 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: umount -f busted
Message-ID:  <20001107134101.C5112@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011072114.OAA22975@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:14:04PM -0700
References:  <20001107160452.R37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200011072013.NAA22410@harmony.village.org> <20001107160452.R37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200011072114.OAA22975@harmony.village.org>

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* Warner Losh <imp@village.org> [001107 13:14] wrote:
> In message <20001107160452.R37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> Bill Fumerola writes:
> : On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> : 
> : > I just tried to umount -f /home, where /home was an NFS mounted file
> : > system on a network that was no longer attached to my laptop.  In the
> : > past this has just worked, even if processes were hung in disk wait
> : > state.  When I tried it last night on an Oct 29th kernel, I got EBUSY
> : > and the file system remained mounted.
> : > 
> : > This can't be right.  Is there any way to really force it short of a
> : > reboot?
> : 
> : That's just the way it seems to be.
> 
> It didn't used to be this way.
> 
> : Mount with 'intr,soft' for better luck with this.
> 
> Things weren't stuck in disk wait, but they still returned EBUSY.
> 
> Force means force, damnit!

Yes, this used to work quite well for some time, I have no idea
who broke it.  Maybe you can sprinkle some printfs in the code and
narrow it down a bit?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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