Re: Forced unmounts possible?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:02:59 +0100 (BST)

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> unmounts are not yet supported. The kernel on this particular machine
> is 2.0.34 I think. I hate taking a machine down over something like
> this, but my real question here is whether it is possible to do this
> under 2.2/2.3. Any suggestions on the current problem with the 2.0.34
> machine are also welcome, though. ;-)

2.2.x supports forced umount for NFS. You'll also basically need to do
umount -f , reports busy, kill everything using nfs, umount -f (repeat)
a couple of times some cases

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