Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> writes:

>> Second update.  It appears that after a kill -9 on [lockd] and
>> [nfsd], they die within a relatively short time, but not instantly.
>> When they are both dead, I can umount.
>
> If you are using the kernel exporting then killing the daemon with
> -9 might not be immediately cleaning up since some state is in the
> kernel and some in the process. If that is happening then it might
> be taking a while for the kernel to detect the problem and clean up.
>
> Since the fs is busy while it is exported, you can't unmount it.
>
> If you do this cleanly with exportfs -u ... then you should be able
> to unmount yaffs.

I shut down nfs first, but I don't do exportfs -u, which I probably
should.  I'm merely shutting down nfs first (along with the other
running processes), and then (somewhat later) umounting.  I'll try to
add exportfs -u to my nfs shutdown script.


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