Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) | Date | Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:32:34 -0400 |
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On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:03 am, Hans Reiser wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > >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. > > This sounds useful. It would be nice if umount prompted you rather than > refusing.
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.
Of course I haven't gotten that far yet, but eventually this will have to be dealt with...
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