[ale] kernel nfs keeping mount point busy

[Ben Coleman]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:46:21 -0400, Transam at cavu.com wrote:

>Only time will tell.
>
>Translation: Assume that the kernel NFS implementation behaves similarly
>to most NFS servers.  The NFS server code will keep files open until
>they have not been accessed for a certain length of time.  Then they
>will be closed.

Apparently, the Linux kernel NFS server *isn't* like this.  Or at least
as far as this particular problem is concerned, it isn't.  From what
I've been able to dig up, this is a known artifact of the Kernel NFS
server.  Turns out exportfs can be used to unbusy the /cdrom mount. 
Probably I'll end up making a couple of scripts for mounting and
unmounting the cdrom drive so I don't have to do it all by hand.

>How do you like Slackware 8.0?  

So far, I like it fine.  Problems have been minimal(gpm couldn't talk
to my Logitech Bus Mouse, even though the busmouse module loaded OK. 
This was fixed by a custom kernel compile, which I would have done
anyway.  I assume the problem was a conflict with something in the
stock Slackware 2.4.5 kernel).

>Are you using the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel?

2.4 on the one machine I've installed it to so far.  I'll probably end
up using 2.2 on the firewall box when I upgrade it, because as far as I
know 2.4 has no equivalents for the ip_masq* modules in 2.2.

Ben
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