linux-kernel - Re: why kexec insists on syncing with recent kernels?

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Date:	Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:19:48 +0100
From:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>
Subject: Re: why kexec insists on syncing with recent kernels?

Randy Dunlap schrieb:

(...)

>> Even if you did -f, it must have shutdown the network. I think somehow
>> in latest kernels there is some dependency on network and that's why
>> not shutting down network in this case is helping you.
> 
> I'm seeing NFS mounts take forever to unmount (at shutdown/reboot).
> (forever => 1 hour ... or never completes)
> 
> Is this similar to the problem that the OP is asking about?

Is it a diskless station?

Even in not, just make sure you don't shut the network down before NFS 
is actually unmounted...?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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