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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:31:22 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Jakob ?stergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
        Ville Herva <vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  January 18, 2002
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Hi!

> > > All this seems very neat. One question: what about forced umount / forced
> > > remount readonly stuff? Any plans on that?
> > > 
> > 
> > That would be *very* nice indeed.  Even if it was only for things like NFS
> > and SMBFS.
> 
> umount(mountpoint, MNT_DETACH);
> 
> Had been there for quite a while...
> 
> It's not a forced umount - it detaches the subtree from mountpoint and
> filesystem(s) go away when they stop being busy.  But for remote
> filesystems that's precisely what you want.

Can I umount filesystems below them? Can I reboot with
busy-but-detached filesystems? Can I kill the processes accessing busy
filesystems? [That was big point of force umount, I believe.]
									Pavel
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