* Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:10:46AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Short answer: no. > > Ah, well. I've already rebooted them anyhow, though, so it doesn't > really matter. > > > Next time unmount on the clients before doing something > > like that. > > I just realized... The stale handles are because of the new drives > (and resulting new inodes), not because of the server being offline > for an extended time, aren't they?
At a guess, yes (IANA NFS guru). ...I wasn't too worried about it > since NFS usually recovers when the server comes back up, but hadn't > thought about things getting shifted around on the disk. "Usually" is the keyword here. IME GNOME + NFS-mounted /home is a very bad combination: even when NFS recovers fine, apps barf about "no working directory" etc. > Unmounting all the clients isn't too bad when there are only 8 of > them, but I would expect it to be a bit of a PITA if you've got 50 or > 100... Having to reboot 50 or 100 machines because you can't unmount those stale NFS handles may be a worse PITA, esp. when some of them run obscure services that aren't documented anywhere and/or have no startup scripts in /etc/init.d. OTGH, getting lusers to log off before mucking around the NFS server is usually enough, unmounting everything is a bit of an overkill... Dima -- Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords -- RISKS 21.37
