Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 2004 23:58:56 -0700 | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | Re: lazy-umount cwd and .. |
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:46:17AM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:44:33PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > > Should I bother to polish this patch off and send it, or is it just not > > something we want to care about? > > No. This is simply wrong - one of the situations when you want lazy-umount > is getting a stuck filesystem (e.g. NFS mounted hard) and wanting to get > it out of the way, so that stuff it's mounted on could be unmounted clean. > > So we definitely don't want to keep anything pinned down.
I'll buy that. I guess it's not worth dreaming up something else to make that be less surprising to apps with cwd in a lazy umounted mount.
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