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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:38:56 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/765: umount -f can`t umount a NFS filesystem in use
Message-ID:  <20010620163856.J49400@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <200106201537.aa99536@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <20010620170251.B794@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200106201537.aa99536@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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-On [20010620 16:37], Ian Dowse (iedowse@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
>So would I, but unfortunately that is a different issue :-(. This
>PR relates to the problem where umount -f fails when the server is
>alive and responding, but something is holding an extra reference
>on the filesystem root vnode. This problem also exists in a number
>of other filesystems in the tree, all of which were fixed in -current
>by the vflush() changes.

Personally I think the benefits outweigh the negatives.

My vote would be to just do it.

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