Re: Hanging NFS umounts with 2.4.27

From: Michael Gernoth
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 16:23:23 EST


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:55:41AM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> fr den 05.11.2004 Klokka 11:02 (+0100) skreiv Michael Gernoth:
>
> > Searching through the Changesets I found 1.1402.1.19:
> > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > After reverting this one, we have a stable umount-behaviour again.
>
> Does the attached patch help at all?
>
> NFS: Always wake up tasks that are waiting on the sillyrenamed file to
> complete.

This seems to fix it for us. Neither my stress-test during the weekend
nor the students today were able to reproduce the hanging umounts :-)

Thanks,
Michael

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