[Gluster-devel] tests and umount

Pranith Kumar Karampuri pkarampu at redhat.com
Mon Jun 16 15:38:55 UTC 2014


On 06/16/2014 09:00 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>>        I see that most of the tests are doing umount and these may fail
>> sometimes because of EBUSY etc. I am wondering if we should change all
>> of them to umount -l.
>> Let me know if you foresee any problems.
> I think I'd try "umount -f" first.  Using -l too much can cause an
> accumulation of zombie mounts.  When I'm hacking around on my own, I
> sometimes have to do "umount -f" twice but that's always sufficient.
Cool, I will do some kind of EXPECT_WITHIN with umount -f may be 5 times 
just to be on the safer side.

If no one has any objections I will send out a patch tomorrow for this.

Pranith


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