>>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] John> not umount local drives. Therefore, I believe it would be John> prudent, as a temporary workaround for the kernel bug, to John> umount all local drives before umounting network drives. It
No, that won't work if the NFS mounts live below the local mounts in the file-system tree. The local mounts will report busy. John> PCMCIA services are turned off before the network is turned John> off, apparently. This causes difficulty, for instance, if John> the laptop is acting as an NFS server, as mine does. (Great John> way to carry data around!) If I forget to umount it from John> the NFS client (my desktop machine), I can have two John> problems: John> * When I shutdown my desktop, it will hang trying to John> umount. I suggest looking at the options you're using on the NFS client. Try soft mounting & see if that will let you umount the NFS volume. John> * When I shutdown my laptop, it will hang trying to turn John> off PCMCIA. That probably does need fixing. -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]