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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Jakob ?stergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
	Ville Herva <vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  January 18, 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:31:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020123113122.GC965@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020119232455.D12692@unthought.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201191749300.5397-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201191749300.5397-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

Hi!

> > > All this seems very neat. One question: what about forced umount / forced
> > > remount readonly stuff? Any plans on that?
> > > 
> > 
> > That would be *very* nice indeed.  Even if it was only for things like NFS
> > and SMBFS.
> 
> umount(mountpoint, MNT_DETACH);
> 
> Had been there for quite a while...
> 
> 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? Can I reboot with
busy-but-detached filesystems? Can I kill the processes accessing busy
filesystems? [That was big point of force umount, I believe.]
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-23 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-18  6:33 [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002 Guillaume Boissiere
2002-01-18  7:26 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2002-01-18  7:29 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-18  7:53 ` hjb
2002-01-18 10:00   ` Russell King
2002-01-18 10:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-18 15:09   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-18 15:17     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-18 10:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-18 21:07   ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-19 18:43     ` Ville Herva
2002-01-19 22:24       ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-01-19 22:42         ` Ville Herva
2002-01-19 22:53         ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-23 11:31           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-01-23 22:55             ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-24 12:29               ` force umount [was Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002] Pavel Machek
2002-01-24 17:00                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-01-23 22:57             ` [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002 Alexander Viro
2002-01-18 11:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-20 12:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-20 12:37   ` David Weinehall
2002-01-20 22:57     ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-19  9:17 Rick A. Hohensee

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