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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:29:19 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Jakob ?stergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
        Ville Herva <vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: force umount [was Re: [STATUS 2.5]  January 18, 2002]
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Hi!

> > 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?

Following situation used to be common and "not a bug":

process a tries to read /nfs/foo, but nfs server dies.

kill -9 a does not kill a.

It used to be "not a bug" before. Can we declare it a bug after umount
/nfs --force?
								Pavel
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