jc@image.lle.rochester.edu (Carolyn Wasikowski) (11/23/88)
Is there any way to tell NFS to umount a partition, and umount it NOW?
My problem is this: one group at my site insists on having its /usr and
/usr/local partitions mounted as /n/bat/usr and /n/bat/usr/local on all
the Suns at our site. When bat unexpectedly crashed due to a power
shortage last week, I naturally tried to umount all of bat's partitions
mounted on my systems. Unfortunately, since /n/bat/usr was unreachable,
/n/bat/usr/local couldn't be umounted. And since /n/bat/usr/local was
mounted, /n/bat/usr couldn't be umounted.
This simple way out of this vicious circle would be never to mount an NFS
partition upon another NFS partition. Still, the larger question remains:
is there any way to force NFS to umount from a machine that is down?
jc@lle.rochester.edu -or- {allegra|seismo}!rochester!ur-laser!jc
image analysis lab sys admin, lab for laser energetics, u of r, ny