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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:32:34 -0400
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On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:03 am, Hans Reiser wrote:
> 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.

The problem here is that umount(2) doesn't take a flag.  I'd be happy to have 
it fail unless called with the WITH_EXTREME_PREJUDICE flag or some such, but 
that's an API change.

Of course I haven't gotten that far yet, but eventually this will have to be 
dealt with...

Rob
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