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Subject: Re: Forced umount (was lazy umount)
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Alexander Viro wrote:

> I want an operation that will:
> 
> 1. Interrupt/Abort any processes disk-waiting on the filesystem

Why ? Can't you just return -EBADHANDLE, -E(NX)IO or something similar ?
Aborting should be reserved to mmap()ing processes.

       Xav