[Mageia-dev] Lazy NFS umount problem: kernel or userspace?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 19/11/12 16:02 did gyre and gimble:
> On 11/19/2012 08:55 AM, Pascal Terjan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie
>> <mailto:mageia at colin.guthr.ie>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     The call that's stalling things is stat(), but this never used to be a
>>     problem with lazy umounts in the past (not sure if it's just stat()
>>     that's now blocking at a kernel level or of some userspace code now
>>     calls it when in the past it did not?
>>
>>
>> If your nfs mount is dead I would expect stat to hang, so I guess it
>> wasn't called in the past. 
> Somebody bobbled, fix available.  See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866303


Thanks Frank. I was going to ping kzak next anyway :)

Col

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