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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:03:29 +0200 (MEST)
From: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> > (e.g. umount gives EBUSY,
> Simply because you _will_ lose data if you umount a device that's being
> scribbled on.

Potentially you _will_ lose data in swapoff case. Kernel could know
when it's save to do but no way for admin to calculate.

	Szaka

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