Re: What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

[Albert Graham <agraham@xxxxxxx>]

Ian,

Try umount -l (lazy) /mountpoint

Albert.

Ian Chapman wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > I used unix/linux for many years.  In the past we've used nfs.  But 
> > nfsv3
> > has no (useful) authentication.  Anyone can setup a rogue machine and
> > pretend to be any uid/gid.
>
> What I'd like to see is a way to forcibly unmount broken hard NFS 
> mounts. umount -f seems to do squat.