On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 10:49:50AM +0200, devzero@xxxxxx wrote: > Any hint on how to circumvent rebooting to remount the nfs share or proactively avoid stale NFS mounts would be very appreciated. (disabling NFS by module unload/load is no option, as our XEN servers do have other NFS mounts for shared storage) Neil had some recent posts that might be relevant: http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=149662998931157&w=2 Ripping out the storage from underneath your applications is a pretty drastic step and may lose data, so NFS hasn't traditionally tried very hard to make it easy. But it may be possible at this point if you kill -9 all the users and umount carefully. > I`m not sure if linux-nfs ML will allow anonymous posts (probably > not), so maybe someone subscribed be so kind to reply with list cc´ed. > I`d like to avoid subscribing to a list because of a single post... That's fine. --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