Re: Temporary NFS problem when rpciod is SIGKILLed

[Trond Myklebust]

må den 25.10.2004 Klokka 17:02 (+0300) skreiv Denis Vlasenko:

> I am using NFS root. At shutdown, when I kill
> all processes with killall5 -9, NFS temporarily
> misbehaves. I narrowed it down to rpciod feeling
> bad when signalled with SIGKILL:

That is a deliberate feature. It is useful when mountpoints hang etc.

Note however that the patches that convert rpciod to use a workqueue
(they can be found in the latest -mm kernels) remove this feature.

Cheers,
  Trond

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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

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