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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum@orgis.org>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: losetup -d --force for zombie loop devices?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:13:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F0F0E8.2020909@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301112352.55112.vapier@gentoo.org>

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On 01/11/2013 11:52 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> but my point was that what you are looking for is umount -f, not
>> umount -l.
> 
> and my point is that `umount -f` doesn't always work which means
> `umount -l` is sometimes the only way to remove a mount point.  an
> unresponsive remote or something is holding open a reference (which
> doesn't show up in `lsof -n`).

Right.  Forced unmounts aren't really implemented.  They need to be.
It isn't losetup that needs to be forcibly detached, but the filesystem.


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17  8:03 losetup -d --force for zombie loop devices? Thomas Orgis
2012-04-17 14:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-17 21:02   ` Thomas Orgis
2012-04-30 20:03 ` Phillip Susi
2012-04-30 20:07   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-01 15:23     ` Phillip Susi
2012-05-03  4:43       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-03 14:29         ` Phillip Susi
2013-01-11 23:52           ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-12  0:54             ` Phillip Susi
2013-01-12  4:52               ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-12  5:13                 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-01-12  5:29                   ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-14  8:35                     ` Karel Zak

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