At 05:55 AM 12/17/2008, Daniel Maher wrote: >So i am correct, then, in assuming that the only >?? clean ?? way to restart the Gluster client >process is, in fact, to unmount the mountpoint >and then re-initialise the client process afterwards ? -- Daniel Maher you can't mount a filesystem on a stale mountpoint so you have to get the OS to stop thinking the thing is mounted, so a umount is necessary as far as I know. I believe it's the same with NFS if your nfs processes die. and it's the same with all FUSE filesystems
