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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:51:36 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Rob Landley wrote:

>On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:03 am, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
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>>Rob Landley wrote:
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>>>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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>
Call it forcedumount().

What apps need to know about how to call it besides umount anyway?

Not a lot that need a lot of worry.....

Hans


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