On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:28:02 +0100, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at 
sun.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:22:20PM +0100, Pavel Filipensky wrote:
>> this is a fix for "6778894 umountall -l still not really local yet".
>> webrev: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~pavelf/6778894/
>>
>> Background: My recent fix for "6675447  NFSv4 client hangs
>> on shutdown if server is down beforehand" is built on "umountall -l",
>> but as noted above umountall -l still not really local yet.
>> Unless umountall -l is fixed, the NFSv4 client can still hang
>> on shutdown if server is down beforehand.
>
> So df -n doesn't hang when NFS servers are non-responsive?

outch! Thanks !

Yes, of course, df uses statvfs() and statvfs() will go OTW for NFS.

probably better to parse the 'mount -p' output instead.

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frankB




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