On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 04:24:35AM -0000, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Another idea would be for the nbd-client initscript to notify the server that > it's about to shutdown. > So the server would do a "delayed disconnect" after e.g. 20 seconds, long > enough for the client to get a chance to shutdown properly without unmounting > its NBD root file system. > > Wouter, would you accept a patch in this direction?
No. That's ugly; if your client then unexpectedly hangs on something, it'll get its root filesystem yanked from under it while it's waiting, and will then never power off. Instead, I suggest you look into having the kernel send out NBD_CMD_DISC on its own at poweroff. I'm sure Paul will accept such a patch. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696454 Title: NBD booted clients don't close the connection on shutdown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nbd/+bug/696454/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
