On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:15:06 -0400 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-release-stuck-nfs-mounts-without-reboot > That brings back memories... I've definitely had a case where I added a an extra IP address to some server so it could pretend to be a dead serve and allow the mount points to fail and processes to be killed. With lazy unmounts and TASK_KILLABLE that should all be a think of the past though ... I hope. NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html