On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > For many, many years, I've always done a umount -l on stale NFS mounts > (e.g. when resuming in a different location to suspending). > > This has always worked, but very recently (i.e. in the last couple > weeks) this has stopped working. > > Anyone know what could be up? > > Blino's change to nfs-utils doesn't look like a problem. > > The call that's stalling things is stat(), but this never used to be a > problem with lazy umounts in the past (not sure if it's just stat() > that's now blocking at a kernel level or of some userspace code now > calls it when in the past it did not? > If your nfs mount is dead I would expect stat to hang, so I guess it wasn't called in the past.
