In Message <[email protected]>,
   "John D. Baker" <[email protected]>wrote:

=>On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 03:08:04 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Christos
=>Zoulas) wrote:
=>
=>> Ok, do a cvs update (which is what triggers it), wait a bit and then
=>> do the unmount.
=>
=>I'm not quite sure about to what you refer.  On a non-stuck client,
=>during 'cvs update' on the NFS server or even arbitrarily long afterward,
=>one can umount/mount an NFS filesystem at will.  If the mount point is
=>the PWD or otherwise in use, the umount attempt returns "Device busy".
=>
=>Even on a quiescent 'amd'-managed NFS mount, access to files on that
=>mount during or slightly after a 'cvs update' on the file server will
=>succeed, albeit with some disconcerting delay--as long as 'firefox'
=>isn't running.
=>
=>Pondering other scenarios that could trigger the behavior.  Something
=>with a file open on the 'amd'-managed mount during 'cvs update' on the
=>server?  The directory is already open as PWD in the shell.  Something
=>that writes to a file?  I have another client on which I was editing an
=>email during 'cvs update' and it survived (albeit with the aforementioned
=>delay).

   Just a random thought: maybe mmap a file on the mount? If just
the mmap doesn't do it, dirty at least one page and see if that
does.

                                        Gary Duzan


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