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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: NFS install 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 22:18:56 -0700
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>> Only problem I got was the quitting, I still get the 
>> 
>> umount of /nfs failed(BUSY)
>> hang. (this could be motherboard/NCR/Harddrive, don't think anyone has 
>> proven either way what is causing it)
>>  Minor problem. 
>
>This is a cache flush issue, where there are pages from the file you
>accessed in the cache but not referenced.

   It is not a cache flush problem. I think there is a bug in sysinstall
(which runs as /sbin/init) where it doesn't 'cd' out of the nfs directory
before rebooting.

>There should be a way to flush these built into the unmount, which
>in turn means an interface for it in the VM system.

   There always has been. Read the code.

-DG