[DRBD-user] Re: Unable to make DRBD Resource Secondary

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Fri Nov 11 13:41:20 CET 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On 2005-11-11T11:07:51, Lars Ellenberg <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:

> we had occasionally the case that neither fuser nor lsof list anything.
> it had been unmounted. still it refused to become secondary.
> 
> stopping nfs-kernel-server (and related statd, lockd or whatever)
> made it possible, though. so there are cases where nfs (or related
> daemons) in kernel space hold references to a device, that user space
> tools won't see.

Has a bug been filed in any kernel-related bugzilla - either kernel.org,
RHAT, SUSE or something?

NFS holding a reference to an unmounted filesystem, now that _is_
scary.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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