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SubjectRe: fmount system call
Pavel Machek <pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz> writes:
> Besides ncpmounting novell server and not umounting it is enough
> sabotage, already. Novell server will of course crash / be rebooted
> soon. And linux can not handle _that_. What about making linux support
> some kind of force unmount?

I'll second that. There have been several times I wish I could force
unmount a hard NFS mount, or a drive that was acting screwy. And since I
couldn't umount them, I couldn't unmount the drives they were mounted on, so
next reboot was a e2fsck-free-for-all.

- Steve

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