From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: umount --force fails
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:12:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030410121204.A21845@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <715903125.20030409223847@tnonline.net>
Hello!
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Anders Widman wrote:
> Why can't I use "umount /mnt/disk --force"?
It is only implemented for NFS. At least that's what my man page says.
> Is there a way that I can get around this? I thought that "--force"
> would force an umount of the filesystem even if some program were
> using it?
I think it is possible to do that for any fs, but some decisions should be made like
what to do with processes having open filehandles/cwd to the mounted filesystem and so on.
Please consult lkml archives for more info on that topic.
Bye,
Oleg
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2003-04-09 20:38 umount --force fails Anders Widman
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