Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))

Hans Reiser
2002-10-13T23:45:47Z

Rob Landley wrote:

>On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:03 am, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Rob Landley wrote:
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>>>I'm also looking for an "unmount --force" option that works on something
>>>other than NFS. Close all active filehandles (the programs using it can
>>>just deal with EBADF or whatever), flush the buffers to disk, and
>>>unmount. None of this "oh I can't do that, you have a zombie process
>>>with an open file...", I want "guillotine this filesystem pronto,
>>>capice?" behavior.
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>>This sounds useful. It would be nice if umount prompted you rather than
>>refusing.
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>The problem here is that umount(2) doesn't take a flag. I'd be happy to have
>it fail unless called with the WITH_EXTREME_PREJUDICE flag or some such, but
>that's an API change.
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>Of course I haven't gotten that far yet, but eventually this will have to be
>dealt with...
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>Rob
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Call it forcedumount().

What apps need to know about how to call it besides umount anyway?

Not a lot that need a lot of worry.....

Hans