Re: NFS and umount -f

[raven]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> På ty , 08/06/2004 klokka 11:54, skreiv Andy:
> > Why does this NOT do what is should be doing, i.e. umount no matter what?
> > 
> > Sometimes I get 
> > 
> > umount2 : Stale NFS file handle
> > umount : machine/path: Illegal seek
> > 
> > and it does not umount it.
> > 
> > What part of
> >  -f "Force unmount (in case of unreachable NFS system)" (umount man page)
> > 
> > does linux not understand?
> 
> Works for me...

And doesn't always work unconditionaly on other OSes either. 

So maybe that's life.

Ian

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