Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:31:22 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002 |
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Hi!
> > > All this seems very neat. One question: what about forced umount / forced > > > remount readonly stuff? Any plans on that? > > > > > > > That would be *very* nice indeed. Even if it was only for things like NFS > > and SMBFS. > > umount(mountpoint, MNT_DETACH); > > Had been there for quite a while... > > It's not a forced umount - it detaches the subtree from mountpoint and > filesystem(s) go away when they stop being busy. But for remote > filesystems that's precisely what you want.
Can I umount filesystems below them? Can I reboot with busy-but-detached filesystems? Can I kill the processes accessing busy filesystems? [That was big point of force umount, I believe.] Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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