From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 1 16:29:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08229 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08202 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14626; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:29:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd014595; Mon Jun 1 16:29:12 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00551; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:29:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806012329.QAA00551@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: NFS discovery To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:29:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: toasty@home.dragondata.com, mi@video-collage.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806011908.DAA10546@spinner.netplex.com.au> from "Peter Wemm" at Jun 2, 98 03:08:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's because umount (in it's infinite wisdom) tries to stat() the > argument to see what file type (/dev node) or directory it is (and resolve > symlinks and other wierd things). This causes the NFS hang. And it shouldn't. The transactions are inapropriately serialized without a retry. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message