On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:12:18 -0400 "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04:33PM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > I'm wondering if I'm missing something or if this is a bug. > > > > A NFS4 export has active clients. The mount is removed from > > /etc/exports and 'exportfs -r' is run. Clients immediately start > > getting 'Stale file handle' errors, but the mountpoint is still busy > > and cannot be unmounted. Killing off nfsd solves the problem, but is > > undesirable for obvious reasons. > > > > On debian linux, kernel version 3.10-2-amd64, with nfs-utils 1.2.8. > > Yeah, the clients may hold opens or locks on the filesystem and those > don't get removed on exports -r. > > For now shutting down the server is the only solution. How far does: echo /path/to/export > /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem get you? Or does that just drop 'lockd' locks and not NFSv4 locks? NeilBrown > > We could possibly fix that, or provide some other way to do whatever it > is you're trying to do, but it's likely not a small change. > > Nevertheless, for future reference it would be interesting to know what > exactly you're trying to do. > > --b. > -- > 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
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