Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:13:45 -0500 (EST) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.2/2.2.2-ac7 knfsd unmount problem |
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Someone drew my attention to a problem he has on vanilla 2.2.2 it > seems, but I've just checked it happens on -ac7. > If you mount a device via nfs, it can be unmounted on the remote > machine, but not on the local machine, where it complains "device is > busy".
I believe this is the expected and proper behavior. When you export a mount point, mountd holds a reference to it. It's not possible to umount whichever device that directory lies upon until the reference is freed via unexport.
Steve
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