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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: how to shut down NFS on a running system?
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:11:47 GMT
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- Ken Lam (lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick) writes:
- :
- : [stuff deleted]
- :
- : >I'm looking for advice on how to shut down the NFS services. These
- : >systems are NFS clients (using the automounter), and one of them is an
- : >NFS server to about 5 other systems elsewhere on the net. I need to
- : >find a way to unmount filesystems even when they're in use, since all
- : >sorts of things (such as any command that uses getwd) break when a
- : >server of a mounted filesystem is inaccessible.
- :
- : >Any ideas?
- :
- : You actually want to kill NFS while in use? Hmm...I've never done this,
- : but you could make a script or something to swap the exports file with one
- : which doesn't export then issue a HUP signal to the appropriate daemons.
- : That should reset everything, but I don't know what will happen to transactions
- : happening at the time of death.
- :
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- What will happen to existing mounts if you unexport them is that all
- applications will get "permission denied" and probably crash. If you
- want recoverability, I don't really know of anyway to do it.
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