Re: FILESYSTEM CORRUPTION
>>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
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John> not umount local drives. Therefore, I believe it would be
John> prudent, as a temporary workaround for the kernel bug, to
John> umount all local drives before umounting network drives. It
No, that won't work if the NFS mounts live below the local mounts in
the file-system tree. The local mounts will report busy.
John> PCMCIA services are turned off before the network is turned
John> off, apparently. This causes difficulty, for instance, if
John> the laptop is acting as an NFS server, as mine does. (Great
John> way to carry data around!) If I forget to umount it from
John> the NFS client (my desktop machine), I can have two
John> problems:
John> * When I shutdown my desktop, it will hang trying to
John> umount.
I suggest looking at the options you're using on the NFS client. Try
soft mounting & see if that will let you umount the NFS volume.
John> * When I shutdown my laptop, it will hang trying to turn
John> off PCMCIA.
That probably does need fixing.
--
Stephen
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