Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:58:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:58:02 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:45578 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:58:02 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA7F385.3040409@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:03:49 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) References: <200210060130.g961UjY2206214@pimout2-ext.prodigy.net> <3DA7647C.3060603@namesys.com> <20021012012807.1BB5B635@merlin.webofficenow.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 33 Rob Landley wrote: >I'm also looking for an "unmount --force" option that works on something >other than NFS. Close all active filehandles (the programs using it can just >deal with EBADF or whatever), flush the buffers to disk, and unmount. None >of this "oh I can't do that, you have a zombie process with an open file...", >I want "guillotine this filesystem pronto, capice?" behavior. > This sounds useful. It would be nice if umount prompted you rather than refusing. > >Of course loopback mounts would be kind of upset about this, but to be >honest: tough. The loopback block device gives them an I/O error, and the >filesystem should just cope. Floppies do this all the time with dust and cat >hair and stuff... > >Of course I don't yet know 1/10 as much about the VFS as I need to, but I'm >learning. Slowly... > >Rob > > > > - 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/