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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  January 18, 2002
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > 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?

Entire subtree gets umounted.  Stuff that isn't busy gets shut down
immediately, the rest - when it stops being busy.

> Can I reboot with
> busy-but-detached filesystems?

You can, but if they are local you'll get dirty shutdown (if they are still
busy at the time of reboot).

> Can I kill the processes accessing busy
> filesystems? [That was big point of force umount, I believe.]

Huh?  If process is killable - it's killable.  What does it have to
--force?

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