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Znarkus
Asked: 2010-10-19 07:56:10 +0800 CST

Reliability of mount/umount

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We have our customer's ftp root tailored by creating "virtual" directories with mount. This means that we have some hundred directories mounted with the bind option.

Lately we've experienced problems where directories just won't unmount until we run umount several times, -lrf in different combinations doesn't even work. No error is presented by umount, but when I run rmdir it tells me Device or resource busy.

Should I expect this behaviour when we've mounted this amount of directories, or is there something else going on here?

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2 Answers

  1. Try the lsof command to see if there are still open files in the offending path?

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  2. Best Answer

    Seems like I have solved this.

    I think the main problem was umount /path/to/ftp/dir/*. Replaced it with umount /path/to/ftp/dir/sub1, umount /path/to/ftp/dir/sub2, etc.

    Also I don't use -l or any other modifier anymore. I probably need to review that, but for now this works best.

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