[Linux-cluster] unable to umount GFS

Adam Manthei amanthei at redhat.com
Wed Dec 22 23:09:27 UTC 2004


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:02:29PM -0000, Raj  Kumar wrote:
> >If NFS was exporting a GFS filesystem, then you will get the filesystem busy
> >error.
> 
> Does this mean I should not export GFS filesystem via NFS? Not all our clients computers are connected to storage and we intend to provide access to them via NFS exports.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raj

You can't unmount GFS if the node you are trying to unmount is also
exporting GFS via NFS.  The filesystem busy error means just that, it's
busy.  If you want to unmount GFS, you will first need to stop GFS on that
node.

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Adam Manthei  <amanthei at redhat.com>




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