pfs_mount

[UNIXTEK]

How can I kill pfs_umount processes ?
How can I kill bdf processes ?

pfs has caused several "bdf" commands to hang and there are
a lot of "NFS server hostname not responding still trying" messages.

kill -9 does not help.

It appears that the only solution is to reboot, but this is not an acceptable solution since the system is a very important database server.
I have tried to restart pfs_mountd and pfsd, but this doesn't help
either.

[MARTINACHE]

Hi,

pfs is like nfs, when there is a lock : you have to reboot !

I don't know if this will work but have a look to "ipcs -a" and then ipcrm.

When you use pfs_mount, add this option "-osoft,intr". Then you are able to kill processes.

Regards,

Patrice.

[Joseph C. Denman]

Patrice is correct. You will need to reboot; however, I dont think the errors will hurt anything, if you wish to wait until low user time for the reboot. Indeed PFS is like NFS. When terminating your PFS, if you do not use the options given by Patrice, you have to kill the processes in a given order. kill pfsmountd first, then pfsd.

...jcd...

[Joseph C. Denman]

I have had the problem in the past where I killed them in the wrong order. I reboot.

You could try turning off nfs server and nfs client. I don't know if this will tell the system to stop attemting or not. Worth a try.

...jcd...