otherwise... it goes to a failed state...
Jonathan Biggar wrote:
> Matthew Geier wrote:
>> Jordi Prats wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> It's normal that I must use a script to do a lazy umount (umount -l
>>> /mountpoint) of a ext3 partition (not GFS) in a HA NFS cluster?
>>
>> I'm having the same problem - the service won't shutdown cleanly as
>> it can't unmount the file systems - which it can't unmount due to some
>> one logging in with SSH and their home directory is on that volume.
>
> I don't think using umount -l is going to do what you want. It means
> that the kernel will continue to write to the filesystem for an
> arbitrary amount of time after the umount completes, which *will* cause
> havok if another node mounts that ext3 partition.
>
> We got around this by writing a custom script that uses fuser to
> identify and kill all processes that had open files on the filesystem.
>
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