Thanks for the helpful answer! > This was fixed 3 years ago in Linux 3.12 I guess it is time to update that machine then ... > > Commit: 8033426e6bdb ("vfs: allow umount to handle mountpoints without revalidating them") > > (and probably a few other related patches). > > You need to be sure you have a version of util-linux where "umount -f" > and "umount -l" don't stat() the mount point. > > NeilBrown In dev. time terms digging this up is pretty much archeology. Best regards Karsten Hohmeier -- 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