[PLUG] How to umount NFS hung mouts

[Terry Griffin]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:43:45PM -0700, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> 
> > Richard,
> > Thank you for your reply.
> > I can't reboot the remote server 'cause it's in California
> > and I don't have any admin. privileges over it.
> > 
> > Thank you
> 
> 
> I was going to suggest turning off all nfs related processes and kill 
> those that won't terminate properly.  I haven't done this before, so I 
> don't know all the ramifications.  In addition, if you don't have admin 
> privileges for the host it probably is a moot point.
> 

That method often worked with 2.2 kernels because most of NFS was 
implemented in user space. In 2.4 most of NFS was moved to kernel space, 
so killing the NFS processes doesn't get you much any more.

Terry
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