> > Yes, but if the remote system is not responding and the local process
> > using the mount is stuck in IO wait, you're basically stalemated. I've
> > never been able to kill a process in this state.
>
> umount -f breaks pending NFS rpc's out of wait and they return -EIO to the
> app. At that point signals will take effect
Urf. I must have ghosts in the machine or something. The next time this
happens I'll try to get a trace on umount -f and save anything that
appears in the logs/console.
Steve
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