What happens when a gfs2 filesystem is unmounted?

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This article describes what all occurs when a gfs2 filesystem is unmounted on RHEL 6 and RHEL 7. When a gfs2 filesystem is unmounted there is 3 things that need to occur:

  • Remove glocks from glock's locktable.
  • Remove DLM locks (or lkb) from the DLM's locktable.
  • Remove cached objects from slab memory (objects marked gfs2_glock in /proc/slabinfo...

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