> I've been able to do this at some stages , I'm not sure how much of forced
> umount works but when I was messing around with NFS/TCP code, I remember
> being able to umount -f the disk which killed any processes in the D
> state,
>
> Not sure though if the server is gone down what happens, my case was I had
> hosed parts of it ..
>
> Dave.
>
>
> On Mon, 24 May 1999, G. Allen Morris III wrote:
>
> > It would be nice if it was possible to force an unmount of
> > nfs mounts. This may even be in the works.
> >
The thing to remember is that this is likely to leave the nfs client
(and possibly the RPC layer) in a bad state, with writebacks and
requests left in a limbo state. We need to do quite some work before
this sort of thing becomes a 'safe' alternative.
Cheers,
Trond
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