Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:05:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:05:05 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:60686 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:05:05 -0400 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15786.28159.854350.479513@laputa.namesys.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:10:55 +0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 43CE 9384 5A1D CD75 5087 A876 A1AA 84D0 CCAA AC92 X-PGP-Key-ID: CCAAAC92 X-PGP-Key-At: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCCAAAC92 To: Rob Landley Cc: Hans Reiser , "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)) In-Reply-To: <200210132242.g9DMgVng334662@pimout3-ext.prodigy.net> References: <20021012012807.1BB5B635@merlin.webofficenow.com> <3DA7F385.3040409@namesys.com> <200210132242.g9DMgVng334662@pimout3-ext.prodigy.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.5 (beta6) "bok choi" XEmacs Lucid X-Drdoom-Fodder: CERT satan root crash passwd drdoom Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1274 Lines: 33 Rob Landley writes: > 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... There were several patches to do this. If I remember correctly Tigran Aivazian wrote one, for example. > > Rob Nikita. - 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/