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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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On Mer, 2004-09-08 at 07:11, Tonnerre wrote:
> This  has   been  discussed  along   with  the  HAL  people   a  while
> ago. Actually, file systems can  introduce a refcount, where we need a
> decrement function  which automatically unmounts the  filesystem if we
> decrement the use count to zero. Kind of an automatic umount.

We've supported file system garbage collection when they become unused
since umm about 2.4.10 I think.

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