Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 04:28:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tar just doesn't want to be KILLed Message-ID: <20010305042804.A80229@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <58127691761.20010305023050@binity.com>; from walter@binity.com on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:30:50AM %2B0100 References: <139127338372.20010305022456@binity.com> <20010304172518.B41178@mollari.cthul.hu> <58127691761.20010305023050@binity.com>
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--7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:30:50AM +0100, Walter Hop wrote: > [in reply to kris@obsecurity.org, 05-03-2001] >=20 > >> 1. there's no way to get rid of an instance of tar (that's probably > >> waiting for some IO to complete? > >> 2. there's no way to umount a mount point held by such a process? > > > > No and no. See the KILL signal, and the -f option to umount. >=20 > Sorry, I should have provided more information, but thought it too > obvious. >=20 > slash:~# killall -KILL tar > slash:~# ps waux | grep tar > root 8975 0.0 0.1 548 0 p0- DE 4:03AM 2:14.08 tar cvfl /= mnt/dump/root.tar / > slash:~# umount -f /mnt/dump > umount: unmount of /mnt/dump failed: Device busy >=20 > [btw, /mnt/dump is a dead NFS mount and tar is in the 'sbwait' state] Okay, NFS is the exception here. You get this behaviour if the remote system dies and you're not mounting the NFS volume the correct way, but I'm not enough of an NFS expert to remember which options you should include to fix it. I always mount my NFS volumes as follows..I forget all the reasons why :-) rw,bg,soft,intr,nfsv3,rdirplus,mntudp,noconn Kris --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6o4ZUWry0BWjoQKURAq7iAKDt7twoTZt/Y+F4MByuUpS+EG1mxQCgjTTm BBxDlcWtbtCJu0gZViqD3Es= =LHMz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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