Kevin Brosius on Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:59:01 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] NFS Question


Beldon Dominello wrote:
> 
> I have recenly started playing with NFS on a Linux box at work.  Basically,
> we need a share to remotely mount CDROMs for software installation (we have
> some, but only in other buildings).
> 
> I got everything to work except for one thing.  I can mount on the AIX box
> fine, but once I umount from the AIX box, the Linux box still lists the share
> as busy and cannot unmount the CDROM locally.
> 
> For the record, I am mounting the CDROM on the Linux box, then mounting the
> mount point on the AIX box.
> 
> I am running Suse Professional 7.3 on the Linux box.  The AIX box is an
> RS6000 running AIX 4.3.
> 
> Any help or insight would be appreciated.
> 

This was a bug in some versions of NFS (unmounting doesn't free the
mount count or something like that), but I would have expected it to be
fixed in SuSE 7.3 by now.  Are you running the 2.2 kernel?  (Does 7.3
still offer a 2.2 kernel?)  I've had similar problems with NFS between
Linux boxes, but haven't tried it in several months.  Last time I had
the problem I ended up killing or HUP'ing two of the nfs deamons after
my umounts so I could remove the CD and remount the next one.  Rather
painful...

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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