DragonFly 1.2.6 diskless kernel hang

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Nov 10 12:39:00 PST 2005


On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:15:36PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>     Yah, you figured it right.  If there is an unblocked entry everything
>     is fine, otherwise there's a problem.

Well, there is at least one nasty case involved. It is currently
impossible to unmount a stale NFS filesystem (e.g. where the server
died), since it will block on the mount point's namespace entry.

Joerg





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