Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002

Alexander Viro
2002-01-23T22:55:41Z

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?